Manson, Family

During his career, the artist has designed numerous lizard weights. This is a particularly colourful lizard with a shimmering blue body turning to grey in the long curling tail. The bright-red markings on his head continue as a stripe along both sides of the body into the tail. Such a brightly-colou..

A floral design produced shortly after the artist returned to work at Caithness Glass. Centring an opaque white ground is a lampworked 5-petalled pink flower. Between the cupped petals - edged in white and set around yellow rod stamen - are russet-coloured leaves. The design is encircled by a contin..

The blue body of this colourful lizard is enhanced with aventurine which gives it its shimmering effect. The red markings on the head continue as stripes along both sides of the body into the long curling tail. His front feet are resting on green foliage next to a low-growing pink blossom on a sandy..

This paperweight - designed by William Manson Snr. - was issued to celebrate the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. Below the sulphide of the young couple are pink and blue lampwork flowers with green leaves; the stalks are tied with a pink bow. Encircling the design is a spaced ..

An extremely complex weight with butterflies on 3 different levels fluttering over a pale-pink clematis on the clear ground. All the insects have aventurine bodies & yellow antennae. 2 of the butterflies have elongated millefiori cane wings (pink & white and pale-blue & red) whereas the third one ha..

No. 18 in the brochure issued by the William Manson Paperweight Studio at Kilwinning (1979-1981). Set over a semi-translucent cobalt-blue ground, the butterfly has a green aventurine body, bright-yellow head and antennae. The green/white millefiori canes used for the wings are miniature closepacks, ..

An underwater scene produced in the artist’s studio at Kilwinning (1979-1981); an encounter between a blue aventurine manta ray - with yellow & black eyes & a long whip-like tail - and a green aventurine fish with a row of yellow spots along both sides of its body. The sandy ocean floor is covered i..

An early lampwork floral study - created by the artist in his studio at Kilwinning. 4 dark-green leaves on the woody stem enhance the cluster of deep-pink blooms. The design is set on a deep-purple base. Next to the stem is a green/white WM signature cane. Officially listed in the 1981 brochure, thi..

A pink, 8-petalled lampwork flower, with an aventurine butterfly hovering above it, is set over a mottled purple ground within a garland of pink, white & yellow complex millefiori canes. Designed by Colin Terris and made by William Manson for Caithness, the weight has a '78 date cane in the base..

Made in 1978 to a Colin Terris design, this is an example of William Manson’s early work at Caithness Glass. The clear glass is set with a sprig of mistletoe encircled by a garland of white & green complex millefiori canes on a translucent amethyst cushion. 5 + 1 faceting. Set into the flat base..

The clear glass encloses a bright-red butterfly over a blue jasper ground, enhanced by the fancy cutting...a top facet, 8 sloping side facets and 8 upright facets. According to the artist, this was one of the first weights he made when he was working with Paul Ysart.Script-signed across the flat pol..

An “end-of-day” weight with whole & partial canes, filigree twists and green, red & copper aventurine inclusions. A “WM” signature cane is set slightly off-centre in addition to a number of “PP” signature canes - an indication, perhaps, that the millefiori was from the relatively short-lived..