£250
Harry Powell for James Powell and Sons, Whitefriars, an Arts and Crafts apple green wine glass, circa 1875, the plain rounded bowl on a cylindrical stem and conical foot, in a rare possibly experimental uranium colourway, 10.5cm high Note: Powell started using uranium to make glass from the 1830s, creating a service for Queen Victoria in a yellow Topaz colour. The company continued to experiment with different combinations of uranium and other oxides to produce variously coloured glass, including what became Alsatian blue and the blue and straw opal glass from 1877, developed by Harry Powell. It is likely this glass was produced during that time, if not earlier, reflecting the previous trend for Bohemian, rather than Venetian coloured glass. See: Evans, W. et al. 1995, Whitefriars Glass, p.50, for an illustrated example of this wine glass in a different opal colour.
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