1869 GEORGE PEABODY COMMEMORATIVE GLASS BOWL GREENER CO

 VICTORIAN 1869

GEORGE PEABODY COMMEMORATIVE GLASS BOWL

HENRY GREENER AND CO

SUNDERLAND ENGLAND

MARKED WITH LOZENGE

Rd No 336921 7th December 1869

Eight inches /21 cms Diameter and 1.5 inches/4cms deep

 400gms Unpacked weight

In Good Condition, no chips, nibbles or hairlines or scratches .

THIS IS A RARE AND HIGHLY COLLECTABLE ITEM AND EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND IN MUSEUMS, SUCH AS THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT, AROUND THE WORLD

SOME BACKGROUND NOTES ON H GREENER

The first chronicled production of glass in England was in 674 AD when the Venerable Bede described how glass makers from Gaul were brought over to make windows for a newly built church and monastery in Sunderland. This church, St Peters in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland still stands today.

There are no further records of glass-making in Sunderland until the late 17th century when in 1697, the Sunderland Company of glass-makers founded the Wear Flint Glass Works in Southwick This is the site that in the mid 19th century was to be acquired by Henry Greener and his partner James Angus.

In 1857 Henry Greener left the employ of Sowerby in Gateshead and the following year started glass-making in partnership with James Angus at the Wear Flint Glass Works in Sunderland, North East England. The company was known as Angus and Greener until Angus died in 1869. During that time they registered their first design on 21^st December 1858. This was to be the first of 11 subsequent registrations.

After his partner’s death, Greener continued to register designs in his own name. He also moved the business to a bigger site in Millfield, on the south bank of the River Wear in Sunderland and which was to become the home of James A. Jobling and Co. and eventually Corning Co. Ltd, which it remains today.

Greener were never as prolific as their Gateshead rivals, Sowerby and Davidson which makes surviving pieces all the more rare.

Many of his registrations were for commemoratives his first being the Gladstone for the Million plate Rd No. 231430 of 31st July 1869. Gladstone had won a landslide election the previous year and the Greener plate proved to be an immensely popular purchase.

NOTE I AM SELLING TWO OF THESE, THIS WEEK

Gladstone for the Million Plate Design Registered 31st July 1869

We also show a small dish Rd No. 236921 marking the death of George Peabody, a wealthy American philanthropist who came from Massachusetts. Peabody ran a large company in Baltimore before moving to live in London where he established a banking and mercantile business. He gave substantial sums of money in both countries for the housing and education of the poor.

George Peabody Commemorative Dish Design Registered 7th December 1869

Please note overseas postage quoted is for North America and Australia, European postage a lot less please ask for price

I AM SELLING A OT OF VICTORIAN PRESSED GLASS ITEMS TIS WEEK INCLUDING A NUMBER OF COMMEMORATIVE  ITEMS, AND WILL COMBINE TO OBTAIN LOWEST POSTAGE COSTS.

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