James Couper & Sons
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 160 pieces of glass made by the Glasgow glassworks owned and run by James Couper and Sons, also known from 1911 as The City Glassworks. These pieces date from between 1870 and 1921. This collection includes glass tableware, vessels, vases and chemical samples. Fashioned objects include three glasses collected around the time of their manufacture in 1872, and over 30 pieces of art glass including decorative vessels and vases, lampshades, jugs and pitchers, finger bowls and other tableware. Some friggers in the collection – including a shepherd's crook, ornamental pipe and miniature chamber pot – are also said to be made at the Glassworks. The collection contains important pieces from their Clutha range, including two designs by Christopher Dresser which were registered and retailed by Liberty of London. There are also two glass bowls made for Liberty’s Tudric pewter ware range, designed by Archibald Knox, and vessels with whose design is attributed to George Walton.
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