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A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS
A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS
A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS
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A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS
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A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS

CIRCA 1880-1900

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A COLLECTION OF JAMES POWELL & SONS WHITEFRIARS ‘HUGO VAN DER GOES’ SEA-GREEN GLASS
CIRCA 1880-1900
Some pieces designed by Harry Powell, comprising: two Venetian-style decanters and stoppers, two vases with blue 'serpent' trailed decoration to the lower body, another with turquoise teardrop trailed decoration, two vases with turquoise prunts, two bowls with turquoise threaded decoration, a green carafe, a slender vase with knopped stem, three goblets with trailed decoration and four plain goblets
Decanter with baluster body: 13 ½ in. (34 cm.) high
Literature
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 152.
Sale room notice
Please note that this lot includes a sleder vase with knopped stem which was not included in the original cataloguing. The correct quantity for this lot is 18. The description and quanitity are correct on christies.com.

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Lot Essay


Harry Powell was inspired by 16th and 17th century German and Dutch Old Master paintings when designing some of his vessels. Within this lot, two of these can be identified as the ‘serpent vases’, also referred to as ‘comet’ vases, which Powell based on paintings he had seen at the Rijksmuseum in 1910. See L. Jackson, Whitefriars Glass The Art of James Powell & Sons, Shepton Beauchamp, 1996, pp. 111-112 for further discussion of this type.

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