Traditional Designs - Beaufort

One of the more recent additions to the Tudor range, Beaufort embraces all the items found in other suites, but is distinguished by the bowl shape of its drinking glasses which have the incurved profile considered by connoisseurs to enhance 'bouquet'. Made, like all Tudor glassware, from full lead crystal and finished to the high standards expected of it. BEAUFORT was the family name of that bastion of English history, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Beauforts were conspicuous in the blood line of the English peerage in the fourteenth century, culminating with Henry VII- founder of the House of Tudor.

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