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