Holmes, Peter

One of Peter’s small editions of flowers on a basket. Here Peter used deep-purple corrugated staves finished in white & lilac. The 5 petals of the deeply-cupped pale-lavender & white flower are set around a red, white & purple millefiori cane.The underside of the flower bears a PH signat..

A floral paperweight created by Peter at Selkirk Glass in 1985 in an edition of 250. 3 snowdrops with stems and green leaves are enclosed within a spaced garland of green, white & pink cog canes. 5 + 1 faceting.There is a PH signature cane on the underside of the tuft of leaves. The flat, polished ..

Above pale-green, ribbed leaves are 2 brown & green buds about to flower and a pale-yellow primrose in full bloom. Its 5 heart-shaped petals surround an amber & white millefiori cane. On the underside of the millefiori “stamen” is a tiny “PH” signature cane. The design is encircled by a spaced garla..

In this 1984 design, Peter set a deep-purple (almost black) pansy, bud and green leaves over a basket of fine purple & white spiraling latticinio rods to create visual depth - an effect that his mentor Paul Ysart had used in many of his designs. On the underside of the pansy is a PH signature ca..

This is the prototype to a limited edition of 200 issued by Selkirk Glass in 1979. The leaves are slightly more extended in this version than in the later edition weight. The basket contains bunches of purple grapes, green pears, a red apple, peaches and a ripe fig. Set over a dusky-pink, textured g..