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The Darnell Service
Artist: Wear Flint Glass Company (active 1805-1844)
Location: Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Date: 1812-1825
Materials: glass
Dimensions: various
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,062 (Total: £43,750)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 5630 (2005)
Provenance:
John and Jane Watson Darnell; by descent in the family; Sotheby's.
Description:
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.
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