Topic: Percival Vickers 1554 Set Wine Glass

[neilh]

I was lucky enough to be shown this by a fellow collector recently. It's part of the "1554 set" of varied drinking glass shapes which appears in the 1893 Percival Vickers catalogue - this one is a wine glass.

[neilh]

This was in fact just one of a set which the collector had. The company did a range of cut & engraved tableware sets using a numbering system that started at 1500. The earliest of these sets came out in the 1870s and several of them are fairly common today, others very difficult to find.

[Paul S.]

very attractive  -  do we assume this 'set' is only four pieces in total Neil, or are there two more glasses?                  I think we might name this design as 'fan splits and trellis'.

[neilh]

I recall the collector had a full set of 6 wines in this pattern. I haven't seen anything else from the 1554 come up but the pattern was used on a full tableware set, everything bar a celery.

[flying free]

Interesting and I like the engraving.  It reminds me of coal mines for some reason. 
Are the bowls quite small?  I just ask as I have some Rheinische Glashutten wine glasses from around that period and the bowls are quite a bit smaller than we would normally drink from -  seem to go through the wine more quickly with them 

[neilh]

They made several sizes for the type of drink - sherry, port, claret, hock - it is tricky to work out which one you have as the differences are minimal. The smallest I have found is a liqueur, 9cms tall.

[flying free]

mine are actually wine glasses (hock) but each Christmas I'm always surprised about how small the bowl is ... probably because I usually drink from a glass like this - 380ccm.  So it feels strange every year 
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