Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 45*
A fine-cut glass 'Prince of Wales service' decanter and stopper and seven wine glasses, circa 1806-10
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £12,562.50 inc. premium
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A fine-cut glass 'Prince of Wales service' decanter and stopper and seven wine glasses, circa 1806-10
By Perrin Geddes and Co. of Warrington, the decanter elaborately cut with an oval medallion engraved with the Prince of Wales' feathers and motto, within a foliate-scroll border, reserved on a band of raised diamonds, the tapering shoulder cut with spiral pillar flutes outlined in fine diamonds, below a double-ring neck, the star-cut foot with a fan-cut scalloped rim, the cut pineapple stopper edged with acanthus leaves, together with two wine glasses, three smaller wine glasses and two liqueur glasses, each flared bowl engraved with the Prince's three feather crest above a rope band, the bases cut with pronounced spiral flutes extending into leaves, the stems raised on shaped feet with star-cut bases, the decanter 28.5cm high, the glasses 12.2cm, 11cm and 9cm high (9)
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams sale 15 December 2010, lots 174-176
With Delomosne & Son Ltd.
On his visit to Liverpool in 1806, the Prince of Wales was served from a cut glass service that Perrin Geddes had recently finished for Liverpool Corporation. The Prince wished to order similar glasses for himself and the Corporation commissioned a set that they could present to the Prince of Wales, little realising the completed service of 342 pieces would cost more than £1300. 136 pieces still remain in the Royal Collection and some of these were loaned to the Glass Circle exhibition, From Palace to Parlour (2003), cat. no.1.
For a detailed discussion of this important service, See Cherry and Richard Gray, 'The Prince's Glasses: Some Warrington Cut Glass 1806-1811', The Journal of the Glass Association, Vol.2 (1987), pp.11-18. See also Andy McConnell, The Decanter (2004), pp.274-277 for an illustration of an identical decanter in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
