- Also known as
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James Powell & Sons, Whitefriars Glassworks
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primary name: James Powell & Sons
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other name: J Powell & Sons
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other name: James Powell & Sons
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other name: Powell & Sons
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other name: Whitefriars Glass Works, London
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other name: Whitefriars Glass Works
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other name: Whitefriars Glassworks
- Details
- organisation; manufacturer/factory; British
- Other dates
- 1834-1980
- Biography
- The Whitefriars Glass Works were purchased by James Powell (q.v) a wine merchant, in 1834, as additional employment for his three sons, Arthur, Nathaniel and John Cotton. Nathaniel's son Harry (1853-1922) (q.v.), a man of extraordinary talent as designer, historian and scientist, entered the firm in 1873 and together with his cousin, James Crofts Powell (1847-1914), developed radically new forms, colours and decorative techniques, as well as creating special industrial glass for scientific uses
- Bibliography
- W. Evans, C. Ross and A. Werner, 'Whitefriars Glass. James Powell & Sons of London', Museum of London, 1995.
'A two hundred and fiftieth anniversary: the Whitefriars glassworks', Apollo 12 1930
J. Rudoe and H. Coutts, 'The table glass designs of Phillip Webb and T.G. Jackson for James Powell & Sons, Whitefriars Glassworks' in the 'Historicism in Europe1830-1880' Journal no 16 of the Decorative Arts Society, 1992
L.M. Angus-Butterworth, 'British Table and Ornamental Glass', London 1956
L. Jackson (ed), Whitefriars Glass. The Art of James Powell & Sons, exhibition catalogue, B. Morris, 'Victorian Table Glass and Ornaments', London 1978
H. Powell, 'Glassmaking in England', London 1923
H. Powell, 'Incidental Notes of a Flint-glass Works Manager from 1874-1916', Journal of the Society of Glass Technology 2, 1918, pp.241-247
H. Powell, 'Table Glass', Architectural Review 6, 1899
Judy Rudoe, '"James Powell & Sons and the Continental Avant-Garde before 1914l' in 'Whitefriars Glass. The Art of James Powell & Sons', Woodbridge 1996, pp 54-65. (catalogue of exhibition held at Manchester City Art Galleries and the Museum of London 1996-97)
Kingswinford 1987, Broadfield House Glass Museum, 'Whitefriars glass in the 1920s and 30s',by W.Evans in 'British Glass between the wars', exhibition catalogue ed. R. Dodsworth
