Whitefriars

The donkey is probably the rarest of the small Whitefriars mosaic silhouettes. Formed from numerous, tiny closely-packed canes in a variety of colours - it’s set on a blue-sheathed white roundel at the centre of a 5-row concentric. Cane colours - from the centre outwards - are aqua, pink, green, bla..

Pattern No. 200; a large pink, purple, pale-blue & bright green mosaic millefiori fish silhouette on a white ground rests at the centre of a close arrangement of assorted multi-coloured single star canes encircled by a double garland of coral-pink and bright-green star canes on a clear ground. Signe..

Pattern No PS 204. Framed by 6 single-cane concentric rings over a clear ground is a mosaic picture cane of a robin red-breast, composed of tiny pink & brown tubes and rods with a green eye and blue feet. The surrounding millefiori cane colours are yellow, blue, white, forest-green and pale-green. A..

An owl mosaic portrait composed of tiny individual brown & cream canes - with white eyes - set on a blue-sheathed white roundel, is framed by 5 single-cane concentric rings in white, blue, cream & red. A blue/white 1978 signature/date cane with a friar is set in the 4th row of canes.5 + 1 facets. Ty..

5 latticinio twists divide the translucent cobalt-blue ground into panels filled with pink, blue & aqua complex millefiori and pale-blue bundled tubes. Blue/black butterfly silhouettes rest on white roundels with purple sheaths in each of the 5 panels. A 1977 signature/date cane is set near the cent..

Probably the most difficult Whitefriars Christmas weight to find, as few were made before the glassworks closed in September 1980. The bell and bow are composed of yellow, pink, blue & white millefiori canes on an opaque black ground. Incorporated in the garland is a 1980 signature/date cane. The we..

Probably the most popular of the Whitefriars Christmas weights, the design was inspired by the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” - a “Partridge in a Pear Tree” being the gift on the first day! It is centred by mosaic pictures of a partridge and 6 pears set amongst leaf-shaped canes made of fine gr..

The theme of this, the fourth in the series of Christmas paperweights, was taken from Luke 2: “And Joseph also went up from Galilee...”. A mosaic picture cane in a field of pale-blue bundled rods depicts Joseph with Mary on a donkey. Encircling the design is a double garland of pink, blue & white co..

The third in the series of Christmas weights with 3 mosaic picture canes - depicting Mary and the baby Jesus in the stable with two angels overhead - in a carpet of dark-blue/white star canes within a double garland of complex millefiori canes in shades of pale-blue and pink over a clear ground. A b..

The Three Wise Men provided the theme for the second limited edition Christmas weight. A large mosaic picture cane - depicting the 3 Kings in their colourful robes - is set within a carpet of blue star canes. A single, larger star cane overhead symbolizes the star which guided the men to Bethlehem. ..

The first in the series of Christmas weights. It was also the first weight to be produced using mosaic picture canes - in this case a central pink & blue angel on a white ground surrounded first by a circle of blue rods - incorporating the 1975 signature/date cane - and then a further circle of 11 a..

A weight commemorating the 25th anniversary of the coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II. The central colourful millefiori crown on a white roundel is framed by 6 clusters of pink & white cog and star canes & pale-blue rods over a sapphire-blue ground.Tiny “Whitefriars” logo, E II R inscription and ..