by Philip Webb
A flint claret glass, designed circa 1860
Designed by Philip Webb (1831-1915)
Manufactured by James Powell & Sons (1680-1980)
Retailed by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co (1861-1940)
12.5cm high
£1,000
This model was among the first of Philip Webb's table glass designs for the newly established Morris, Marshall Faulkner & Co. A comparable example, bequeathed by William Morris' daughter May Morris, currently resides in Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery.
This model was exhibited by Powell & Sons at the exhibition of British and Irish decorative arts in Paris 1914.
Examples are known without the eight applied prunts, with Green or Ruby applied prunts, and others with a finely beaded lip.
Philip Webb's Design, courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Edited By Linda Parry, William Morris, 1996
Edited by Lesley Jackson, Whitefriars Glass the art of James Powell & Sons, 1996
Judy Rudoe, The Decorative Arts Society Journal 16, 1992
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