FINE PERRIN GEDDES PRINCE OF WALES SERVICE LIQUEUR GLASS
CIRCA 1806 - 1810
£575
Auction: Day One: 02 September 2020 | From 11:00
Description
the slightly flared bowl finely engraved with the Prince of Wales crest and motto ICH DIEN, above a rope band and wrythen bowl bases, on octagonal stems with diamond cut knops and ending in a star cut eight-pointed base, ensuite with the preceding lot
Dimensions
9cm high, rim 4.9cm diameter, foot 5.7cm diameter
Footnote
Note: In 1806 the Prince of Wales visited Liverpool. In gratitude, the Council ordered a huge suite of table glass for him from the local manufacturer Perrin, Geddes & Co. of Warrington. When it arrived, the Prince thanked them for 'the most beautiful and ornamental specimens he ever saw of this valuable manufacture'. The suite took over a year to make, and probably involved the work of a number of craftsmen. The local glass-cutter John Unsworth, who styled himself 'Manufacturer to His Majesty and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales', may have been one.
For a full discussion of the service made by the Warrington glasshouse of Perrin Geddes and Co., see Cherry and Richard Gray, 'The Prince's Glasses, Some Warrington Cut Glass 1806-11', Journal of the Glass Association, 2, 1987.