Royal Brierley iridescent red Art Glass Vase with label, late C20th

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Royal Brierley iridescent red Art Glass Vase with label, late C20th

A thick walled globular glass vase with a wide flat rim, the deep red glass with mottling and iridescent effects, an oval label to the top reading ‘Since 1766’ ‘Royal Brierley’ ‘England’. The glassmakers Royal Brierley did indeed have their origins in the eighteenth century when Joseph Silver, one of the original founders in 1766, leased the Moor Lane Glasshouse at Brierley Hill, North Devon. His daughters married William Stevens and Samuel Cox-Williams, who took control of the business in 1847 and the company subsequently became known as the Stevens and Williams Glassworks, retaining this name until the 1930s when it changed it to Royal Brierley Crystal reflecting the grant of a royal warrant as glassmakers to the Crown. Royal Brierley has always been mainly associated with crystal glass but in the 1980s it produced a range of art glass termed ‘studio’ with iridescent effects and which employed designs by Michael Harris of Isle of Wight Glass and used techniques derived from his own studio. These pieces are similar in style to this vase but generally signed ‘Studio’ at the base and there does not seem to be any direct parallel for this particular form, which may possibly have been intended as a candleholder. An unusual piece, then, which well deserves a place in a collection of twentieth century British art glass.
Size: Ht 14.5cm, Width (max) 14cm, Base 5.5cm
Weight: 955gm
Date: Late C20th
Condition: Good condition generally; one small firing fault near to the base (see Image XXXX)
Estimate: £20 – 30

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