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Description: | Artist: James Powell & Sons, glassworks; Date(s): circa 1850; Classification(s): glass, goblet, blowing, bowl blown, cut glass stem, interior silvered, exterior flashed with emerald green; Acquisition: bought by Handley-Read Estate, 1972-10-19, Purchased with the Perceval Fund, and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum [C.51-1972]
Description: Double-blown lead-glass, the interior silvered, the exterior overlaid with green glass, cut, and engraved. Bell-shaped bowl on knopped and cut stem with a circular foot. The bowl is engraved with the coat-of-arms of the City of York and of the Dukes of Somerset, and there is a ribbon design on the foot. The opening at the base is inlaid with a seal marked 'E. Varnish & Co, London, Patent.' | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | glass goblet James Powell & Sons | Temporal: | name=mid-19th Century; start=1850; end=1850 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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