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AN EXCEPTIONAL SUITE OF CUT AND ENGRAVED WINE GLASSES BY JOHN BLADES

Creator: John Blades
Offered by: Fileman Antiques

Description
The fine suite of glasses cut with eight point star foot, slice cut stem with diamond cut knop. This is supporting a flared bucket bowl with deep spiral cutting at the base; engraved with rope band and the initials J.A.M.
The service consisting of 12 Wine, 18 Sherry and 20 Port glasses.

Height
Wine 5 1/2" (14cm) Sherry 5 1/4" (13.5cm) Port 4 1/4" (11cm)

Width
Wine 3" (7.5cm) Sherry 2 3/4" (7cm) Port 2 3/4" (7cm)

£19,500.00

Provenance
Private English Collection, the suite has been with this family for over 100 years.

Literature
This glass is similar in design to the glasses in a service made for the Prince of Wales by Perrin Geddes of Warrington c. 1806-10, but a drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum, E.784-1978 by John Jones, shows a similar glass engraved 'J.A.M.' and on the drawing inscribed 'Had by J.A. Mandezabal'. John Jones, was one of the sons of Francis Jones (d. 1834), who had taken over the firm of John Blades after the latter's death in 1829.

EXHIBITIONS
The V. & A. also has a sheet of drawings by Leopold William Jones dating from c. 1840 which also shows this shape. The firm continued until 1857. J.A.M. was presumably the Spanish economist and politician Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790-1853), who lived in England from 1823 until returning to Spain in the mid 1830s.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Origin:	England
Period:	19th Century
Creation Date:	1825
Styles / Movements:	Traditional, Regency
Dealer Reference #:	FA479
Incollect Reference #:	772750

Message from Seller:

Established in the 1890’s, Fileman Antiques are now a fifth generation family run business, based in the historic village of Steyning in the beautiful countryside of West Sussex, restoring and supplying the finest eighteenth and nineteenth century lighting and glass.