A rare Whitefriars Sapphire glass vase designed by William Wilson and Bernard Fitch

A rare Whitefriars Sapphire glass vase designed by William Wilson and Bernard Fitch, flaring cylindrical form with bands of cut oval and elliptical panels, later incised RL France monogram, 18cm. high

Provenance

Cargin & Morley Collection

Private collection.

Literature

Lesley Jackson, Whitefriars Glass The Art of James Powell & Sons, Richard Dennis Publications, page 132 plate 137 (this actual vase).

Exhibited

Whitefriars Glass The Art of James Powell & Sons, Manchester Art Galleries, 1996, Museum of London 1997, this vase exhibited.