Early in 1860, Phillip Webb designed a number of wine-glasses and other glass vessels for manufacture by James Powell & Sons, specifically for William Morris’s use at Red House. Subsequently, glasses from this series, along with others designed by Webb, were among the first products sold by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company. Around the turn of the century, manufacture of these Webb-designed glasses, with some variation in design, was revived by Powell’s and they continued in production until the 1920s/30s. This example probably dates from the c.1900 revival of the Webb range, examples of which were shown at the 1914 Exhibition of British Arts & Crafts at the Louvre, Paris.
