A Whitefriars cut-glass table service

JAMES POWELL & SONS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A Whitefriars cut-glass table service
James Powell & Sons, early 20th Century
The drinking-glasses with tulip-shaped bowls cut with broad bands of ovals and on faceted stems, comprising:
Thirty-five sherry-glasses
Thirty-nine white wine glasses
Fifteen red wine glasses
(some with slight chips) (89)

Lot Essay

Cf. Wendy Evans, Catherine Ross and Alex Werner, Whitefriars Glass, James Powell & Sons of London (1995), p. 77. This type of 'Roman' facet-cutting was apparently first observed by Harry Powell in Zurich in 1906.

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