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Jonas Defries & Sons, RD 35778, 26 June 1846 - Night lamp
neilh:
I've come across an 1867 advert for Defries, it reads thus:
TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT, DINNER, DESSERT, AND BREAKFAST WARE; CRYSTAL AND BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS.
Notice of removal - J Defries and Sons have removed from their temporary premises, Commercial Street, Whitechapel, to their new City show rooms, 147 HOUNDSDITCH, N.E., where they have for inspection, in their Six new Show-rooms, an entirely new assortment of CRYSTAL & BRONZED CHANDELIERS; cut, engraved, and jewelled Table Glass, Dinner, Dessert, and Tea Services; Jet and other Ornaments for Dining and Drawing-rooms, Exhibition Flower Vases, Tazzas, Lustres, etc. Lamps of every description for India and other markets.
Established 1803
WORKS - LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, AND PARIS
agincourt17:
Thank you, Neil.
All information gratefully received.
Fred.
agincourt17:
Another Jonas Defries & Sons design to show.
A substantial press-mouded flint glass pedestal vase with the registry date lozenge for 7 January 1881 - Parcel 15. Decorated with a pair of heads depicting an Indian elelphant. Measures 24cm tall, with a base diameter of 13.5cm and a top rim diameter of 13cm .
(Permission for the re-use of these images on the GMB granted by pottman321)
Jonas Defries and Sons , 147 Houndsditch, City, London, registered 2 designs for glass items on 7 January 1881 - Parcel 15: registered designs numbers 360486 and 360487; see reply #11 in this thread for a list of Defries design registrations
Unfortunately, the online design registration summaries from TNA don't give a subject for either RD so I can't tell which of the 2 designs relates to the vase.
There is no record of Defries having a glass works, so I imagine that the manufacture of the vase was subcontracted out (though I have no idea to whom).
Describing themselves as, among other things, manufacturers of 'lamps for India and other markets', I find it interesting that the elephants on the vase have an obvious connection to Defries' other items for the Anglo-Indian market.
Fred.
Paul S.:
this pedestal vase, with the elephant's heads, is Rd. 360487 - and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but assuming this is all there is then it's missing its lid - both Registrations were produced with lids.
I have Kew images for both 360486 and 487, and will post this afternoon some time - the first of these two numbers is even more artistically impressive, and shows - dare I use the expression, mermaids with bare breasts - to be viewed only by those over 18!
Coming back to Fred's long list of Defries Registrations, in post No. 11, many of these I would have purposefully not photographed - lamp chimneys and light reflectors etc. are not, in my opinion, the sort of items that people wanted for the Board's archive. Some, however, whilst irrelevant to our interests, are truly impressive and very colourful - so in the coming days I'll try to post some of those to show how diverse these people were in their marketing strategy.
flying free:
Fred, if there is no record of Defries having a glass works, the advert Neil described might indicate where but not who.
That purple colour reminds me of some Sevres pieces but it's pressed. I don't know if they made pressed glass.
'Established 1803
WORKS - LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, AND PARIS '
And the article I copied from the NYT as below but is not indicative of where their glass was made either:
'Glass furniture from companies like Osler (and its British competitors, Defries & Sons and the Coalbourne Hill Glass Works) had another distinct advantage. Because the glass cutting was geometric, not figural, the decoration was acceptable to Muslim rulers.'
Source NY Times 16 June 2006
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