Topic: Harry Powell Glasses

[NevB]

I think these are beautiful and a bit special. I've looked through Lesley Jackson's Whitefriars book but can't find this exact design, however I believe them to be "Poppy Head" pattern by Harry Powell from around 1900. They are 7.5" tall, the bowls are wrythen with four dents.

[Ekimp]

Might they be Walsh Walsh? Figure 85 on page 32 of Reynolds shows a clear wine service with “sham-flute twist” and looks like there is also a dimple. The bowls look the same.

[NevB]

Thanks Ekimp, I went through the Walsh book and saw them  but decided that with the shape, twist and four dimples that mine were Powell, but I could be wrong. I have some of the Walsh tumblers and they have a slight flute twist but not the dimples. Mine could still be by someone else though.

[Ekimp]

Yes, I don’t know. The poppy head decanter shown in Lesley Jackson doesn’t look to have any twist to the ribs though and couldn’t see a twist mentioned in the text. Also, the indentations in the side aren’t just dimples but prominent large dents. There is a better picture of a poppy head decanter in McConnell’s Decanter, it looks the same as the one on the love decanter website here: http://www.lovedecanters.co.uk/LDWhiteDecanterPre1900.html

They’re very nice anyway!

[NevB]

Yes, I'd seen a wrythen glass on the lovedecanters site too pre-1900.


http://www.lovedecanters.co.uk/LDWhitePre1900.html

[Ekimp]

That’s interesting as he has your type of glass as Walsh. http://www.lovedecanters.co.uk/LDJWWTable.html

[NevB]

Looks like they could be Walsh then. I don't know.

[glassobsessed]

I did have a handful of these recently:
http://www.lovedecanters.co.uk/JWW4S3.jpg

but I think Nev's match the "Venetian Suite" pattern better, it is the density of the ribs that seem to make the difference:
http://www.lovedecanters.co.uk/JWW5bS1.jpg

If the colour matches this bunch then in my mind no contest...

John

[NevB]

Thanks John, the colour matches so I'm going to agree they are Walsh Venetian Suite. I can't find a reference to that name in Reynolds.

[Lustrousstone]

Walsh Walsh seems highly likely to me. Powell didn't really do uranium glass except for straw opal, which these most definitely are not