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The Darnell Service

Wear Flint Glass Company, 1812–1825

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland

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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Title of artwork, date

The Darnell Service, 1812–1825

Date supported

2005

Medium and material

Glass

Dimensions

Various

Grant

10062

Total cost

43750

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