Selkirk

A design by William Lowery - with deep-violet and green “claws forming a ring around the precious green filament” over an opaque white ground.Engraved around the polished, concave base: Snapdragon 1989 192/500. (Original certificate)  ..

An enigmatic design. Is it perhaps a stylized flower with mottled mint & white petals enclosing 3 dark-green curling “anthers” rising from a ground of golden bubbles - or does it represent the mythical fruit which was believed to induce a state of dreamy content and forgetfulness ? Either way, it’s ..

A Peter Holmes design interpreting the exuberant fun of the fairground. As if exploding from the 2 crescent-shaped silver bubbles lying on the white crystalline base, translucent blue, green and red streamers swirl around and between the myriad larger and smaller silver bubbles filling the dome.Sign..

A spherical weight with a “sculpted” surface and a polished front facet giving a view onto a sparkling abstract design. From an opaque white & speckled-blue ground a vortex of blue and amber tinted glass - liberally sprinkled with fine particles of silver mica - swirls upwards towards a large silver..

“Ebony” is one of Peter Holmes’ great abstract designs; the black-and-white colouring accentuating the stark beauty of a tree - in silhouette - above a black & white ground. A faint PH signature cane is embedded in the underside of the colour ground. Inscribed around the polished, concave base with..

A cavalcade is a ceremonial procession, a pageant; here it’s a whirl of colourful, translucent glass kites - red, blue, green & purple - lightly tethered to the white crystalline ground below them.Signed around the flat, polished base: Selkirk Glass, Scotland, Cavalcade 191/450, 1985...

An early design incorporating 2 silver bubbles over a ground of molten "gold". The lower bubble is shrouded in a fine purple veil which extends to the 8 smaller bubbles encircling it. The second, larger bubble floats above the others, representing, perhaps, the sun god - the centre of religious beli..

An early abstract design from Peter Holmes: rising from a lava ground covered with mounds of tiny golden bubbles, is a golden rod encircled by a silver planetary ring. A PH signature cane is set in the flat polished base, which is etched, numbered & dated: Selkirk Glass Scotland, Sceptre, 27/350 198..

A relatively early example of an abstract design from this Scottish glasshouse, which produced its first weights in 1978. Cyclone: “a wind rotating round a calm central area”; and that is precisely what is interpreted here. Rising from a shimmering blue ground, layers of fine crystalline bubbles swi..

Issued to commemorate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Red, white & blue ribbons radiate out over a cobalt blue core from under a complex red, white & blue cane with a stylized crown, a heart silhouette, the letters “C” and “D” and the date 1981.Engraved on the base: Selkirk Gla..

An early design from Peter Holmes. Silvery ice crystals caught in the frozen branches of a tree, reflect the pale winter sun. Set over a crystalline and opaque white ground.A PH signature cane is inset on the underside. The flat, polished base is signed Peter Holmes and inscribed: Selkirk Glass Scot..

An early weight from Selkirk: the first of a series of 4 designs illustrating the National Emblems of Great Britain. The complex centre cane bears the Thistle of Scotland. 5 colourful composite millefiori canes are spaced around it over a translucent, cobalt-blue ground.The weight has a low dome and..