Antique glass - blue opal champagne glasses Powell 1880

Rare blue opal champagne glass the bowl with optical ribbing Designed by Harry Powell Whitefriars c1880. 

Condition: Very good condition. 

Rim:    9.6 cm. 

Foot:     7 cm.

Note: Blue opal is a pale milky blue heat-sensitive opalescent glass with graduated colouring. Produced from 1877 until around 1914 Blue opal glass was used for tableware, ornamental glass and lamp shades.  Judging by its greater rarity, blue opal was not made in such large numbers as straw opal.

Marris Antiques - I have been a specialist antique glass dealer since 1986.  My stock consists of a wide range of antique 18th and 19th century English and Irish glass including antique drinking glasses, rummers, tumblers, decanters, coloured glass and a selection of late 19th & early 20th century Whitefriars glass. My website displays a small selection of my glass, however, if you are looking for something specific and cannot find it, please do not hesitate to contact me direct form my website contact page,  Email mail@marrisantiqueglass.com or Telephone: +44 (0)7841 500644.