From the Wear Flint Glassworks, Sunderland, the flared bucket bowl deeply cut all around with alternating plain and diamond-cut pillar flutes beneath a prismatic-cut band, the front panel engraved with the full arms of John George Lambton with the family motto 'LE LOUR VIENDRA' (The Day Will Come), the spreading petal-cut foot with a star of fine diamond panels to the underside, 14.3cm high

Footnotes

The arms are those of John George Lambton of Lambton Hall, Co. Durham who was appointed Lord Privy Seal from 1830 and created Earl in 1833. The service, which originally comprised 239 pieces, was felt to be a triumph of glassmaking and it is documented that in 1823 a decanter and four glasses from the set were carried through the streets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne as part of a parade. The Lambton set was one of three extensive Regency cut glass services made for the Londonderry, Lambton and Darnell families. These are discussed by Simon Cottle, The Darnell Service, in The Glass Cone, no.72 (2005), pp.4-5. The service was dispersed in 1932. A 'Prince of Wales Decanter' from the Lambton service was sold by Bonhams on 16 December 2009, lot 121 and this was acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass (accession no. 2009.2.35). See also Susan Newell, The Sunderland Glass Services: A Reappraisal, in Journal of the Glass Association, vol.6 (2001), pp.24-37.

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