SECOND DAY’S SALE WEDNESDAY 22nd JANUARY 2014 ORIENTAL AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS Commencing not before 10.00pm Oriental and European Ceramics and Glass will be on view on: Friday 17th January 9.00am to 5.15pm Saturday 18th January 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 19th January 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 20th January 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 21st January 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Enquiries: Andrew Thomas Enquiries: Nic Saintey Tel: 01392 413100 Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] The following fifteen lots of Waterford and Irish glass come by direct descent from the Penrose family. George and his nephew William Penrose, both prominent Quakers and astute businessmen, established the Waterford Glass House in 1783 to take advantage of the dropping of the glass levy, on Irish glass, by the English Parliament. This excise duty which was charged on the weight of the materials used to make the glass remained on English glass, but in order to protect domestic concerns the export of Irish glass to England, not withstanding smuggling, was forbidden. The Penroses ran the Waterford Glass House, initially with John Hill and then latterly with Jonathon Gatchell. George Penrose died in 1796 and Gatchell with partners bought out William Penrose’s interest in 1799. The Waterford Glass House continued under several Gatchell partnerships until it closed in 1851, shortly after exhibiting a suite of banqueting crystal at the Great Exhibition, due to the crushing burden of taxation. William’s daughter Elizabeth Penrose married Anthony Robinson in 1805 at the Friends Meeting House and their daughter Susanna Penrose Robinson who was born in 1816 married Joseph William MacMullen in 1850. Although Susanna had ten siblings, she seems to have outlived many of them (most of whom seem not to have had issue of their own) and as a result inherited most of the Penrose and Robinson artifacts including a shell cabinet made by her mother Elizabeth (see lot 914). In turn Joseph and Susanna’s son Alfred Robinson MacMullen inherited the collection passing it to his son Alfred Grahame MacMullen (1891-1966) who married Priscilla Carter of Budleigh Salterton. On his death she remarried becoming Priscilla Hull, gifting the collection to her sons in 1993. Many of the following lots are illustrated in Irish Glass, Waterford, Cork, Belfast in the Age of Exhuberance by Phelps Warren. 451 453 454 A Waterford glass plate with A Waterford glass shallow Two Waterford glass jars notched rim the underside cut dish of canted rectangular and one cover one with fan with wrythen radiating panels form cut with fan scalloped scalloped rim above a slice cut of hobnail cutting around rim, the base and side with band, single prism and a field a star cut centre, 21 cm cross-cut diamonds, 23 cm of diamonds on an octagonal diameter, 1810-30. long, circa 1830-35. stem and star cut foot, the £50 - 80 £80 - 120 domed cover with band of Provenance The Penrose Provenance The Penrose family diamonds and a star cut knop, family thence by descent. thence by descent. 13.5 cm high, the latter with fan scalloped rim above a 452 single prism and a field of A Waterford glass oval dish strawberry diamonds, bulbous and pair of circular ice plates stem and square strawberry the former with scalloped rim diamond cut foot, devoid the sides cut with diamonds cover, 12 cm high, circa 1800- above a star cut base, 25 cm 20. long, single rim chip, each ice £180 -220 plates cut with a broad band of diamonds around a single An identical example of the band of shallow diamonds former from the Collection and a star cut base, 19 cm of the Marquess of Bute is diameter, generalised chips to illustrated in plate 156, Irish 454 rims, circa 1820-30. (3) Glass, Phelps Warren. £80 - 120 Provenance The Penrose family Provenance The Penrose thence by descent family thence by descent 156 455 455. A pair Waterford glass mallet shaped decanters and matched stoppers each with 456 heavy lip and pair of annulated neck rings on slice cut sloping 457 shoulders the body cut with Two Waterford liqueur vertical linear designs below glasses, scent phial and cruet a band of inverted fans, with stand the former with funnel star cut bases and mushroom shaped bowl inscribed ‘E.P.’ stoppers, 19 and 19.5 cm for Elizabeth Penrose and high, circa 1820-30. verso with a spray of forget- £200 - 300 me-not, set on a faceted stem These decanters are illustrated and spreading foot, 9 cm as plate 115, Irish Glass, Phelps high, another with everted Warren. rim inscribed ‘T.R’ for Thomas Provenance The Penrose Robinson, the scent phial of family thence by descent. 458 circular form inscribed ‘S.R.’ for Susanna Robinson, with 456 458 prism cut sides the reverse A Waterford glass decanter A Waterford glass decanter with a field of diamonds, 4.5 and stopper of mallet shaped and stopper of bottle shaped cm high, crack to reverse and form with heavy lip and triple form with slice cut neck and neck, the boat shaped cruet annulated neck rings above shoulders the body bisected with diamond cut sides and sloping slice cut shoulders, into three panels by cut swags base, 16 cm long, circa 1790- the body cut with vertical with pendants containing a 1830. (4) linear designs flanked top and pen and rose rebus, a lion £200 - 250 bottom with cut swags, above rampant supporting two roses Provenance The Penrose family a star cut base, with star cut and interlaced initials **P, thence by descent mushroom stopper, 20.5 cm above a band of vertical blazes, high, circa 1820-30, minor with bulls eye stopper, 25 cm chip to rim. high, circa 1805. £150 - 200 £600- 800 The decanter is illustrated as The decanter is illustrated as plate 115, the shape appearing plate 102, Irish Glass, Phelps on sheet in Samuel Miller’s Warren where its ownership Waterford Glass House Patterns by Elizabeth Penrose and its plate 1a, Irish Glass, Phelps history is more fully discussed. Warren. Provenance The Penrose family Provenance The Penrose thence by descent. family thence by descent. 157 461 A Waterford glass scent phial of shuttle form inscribed with initials ‘G.P.’, possibly for George Penrose the front and flanks cut with prisms, the reverse cut with prisms, a feather motif and a panel of fine diamonds, 10.5 cm long, circa 1795-1800. £150 - 200 Provenance The Penrose family, thence by descent 462 A set of four Irish glass, probably Cork, wine goblets the bucket shaped bowls with basal annular knop engraved and etched below the rims 459 461 with tasselled fabric swags bearing stellar motifs and 459 460 pendant husks on spreading A Waterford glass memorial A small group of Waterford stepped stems and square scent bottle of flattened oval glass comprising a cream jug lemon squeezer bases, 13 cm form engraved with the initials with notched rim above prism high, circa 1810-30, minor R.P (for Rachel Penrose née cuts and a band of diamonds chips to bases. Nevins) beneath the arched flanked by slice cutting, 9 cm £250 - 350 caption Look & Remember high, a salt with serrated rim Provenance The Penrose family within a simple foliate border cut with a field of diamonds thence by descent. above a pair of ribbon bound above a slice cut base, together roses and buds and verso with a salt of navette form with the initials S.E. above with undulate rim, cut with the arched caption ‘Dearly prisms and flat diamonds on a Beloved’ within a simple hexagonal stem and diamond ribbon bound foliate border, shaped lemon squeezer base., 17 cm long, late 18th century, 9.5 cm long, 1800-30 the neck broken and taped. former cracked, the latter with £250 - 350 minor wear to rim. (3) Illustrated plate 214, Irish £100 - 150 Glass, Phelps Warren. Provenance The Penrose family Provenance The Penrose thence by descent. family thence by descent. Rachel Penrose being the wife of William Penrose co-founder of the Waterford Glass House 462 158 463 463 465 466 A suite of Irish, probably Five Waterford glass custard A group of Waterford and Waterloo (County Cork), cups and five similar the other glasses comprising two drinking glasses comprising former with applied loop syllabub glasses one of slice three large goblets, twenty eight handle with scroll terminal cut trumpet shaped form the wine glasses each with everted the slightly swelling body cut other facet cut and set on a rim, the bowls engraved and at the base with a band of short stem with annulated etched below the rim with a blazes, 7 cm high, two further knop, 10.5 and 11.5 cm high, fretted and stellar band bordered of broadly similar form, but a pair of small goblets of barrel by zig-zags, set on a hexagonal without cut decoration and shaped form the stem with stem and spreading foot, 9 and three with loop handles with blade shaped knop and a small 13 cm high, circa 1805-30, eight notched and scroll terminals liqueur glass with everted rim wine glasses chipped. (31) the footed bell shaped body cut with a fretted and stellar £500 - 600 with comb moulding to the band, on straight stem and Provenance The Penrose family base, circa 1820-30, two of the spreading foot, circa 1800- thence by descent former and two of the latter 1830, goblets chipped. cracked. (10) £50 - 80 464 £100 - 150 Provenance The Penrose family A pair of small Irish glass, Provenance The Penrose family thence by descent.