The Darnell Service

Wear Flint Glass Company (active 1805-1844)

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

1812-1825

This is an engraved armorial cut-glass table service comprising of 413 pieces and produced at the zenith of the Wear Flint Glass Works in Sunderland. The drinking glasses are engraved with the Darnell crest of a cock pheasant with a falcon's leg erased at the thigh. It is thought that the service was a present for Robert and Jane Darnell's wedding but not completed until a few years after their wedding in 1812.

• Medium: glass
• Dimensions: various
• Art Fund Grant: £10062 ( Total: £43,750)
• ArtFunded in: 2005
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

John and Jane Watson Darnell; by descent in the family; Sotheby's.

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