Ysart, Paul

Green, pink & mustard-yellow millefiori canes are set around a small yellow star. Encircling this arrangement on an opaque pink ground, is a double spaced garland of white star canes and amber & green composite canes.Fire-polished, slightly concave base with an unfinished pontil. Attributed to 1940/..

A meticulously set up patterned millefiori - with three different-coloured cog canes around a complex pink/green centre cane - encircled by a continuous border garland composed of pink/white tubes and maroon/white/yellow cogs alternating with complex light-blue/white composite canes. The unusual fea..

A magnum complex patterned weight with millefiori canes covering most of the mottled amber cushion, which rises well into the dome. The arrangement in the centre includes simple yellow/orange cogs encircled by complex canes and tan/yellow cogs forming short spokes. Between the spokes are complex mau..

A patterned millefiori design - probably pre-1940s; the glass has a slight greyish tint.Complex and simple canes set around a bright-green, white & ruby composite centre cane encircled by a double border garland. The inner ring consists of turquoise and yellow-striped canes, the outer ring has dusty..

The pattern of pink, blue, white, mauve & yellow millefiori canes in the centre, is encircled by a border garland of millefiori canes and filigree twists enhanced with aventurine. The design is set over an opaque terracotta ground. Wide flat basal rim, concave centre with a small, rough pontil. Slig..

A colourful, superbly-set paperweight with an opaque mid-blue colour ground. A border garland of 7 large complex millefiori canes - with pairs of smaller canes between them - encloses a central arrangement composed of canes with colours similar to those in the garland.The gold Monart label covering ..

A lampwork double clematis - with 10 pale-blue/white ribbed petals around a red/white millefiori “stamen”.  The short curving stem bears 4 green leaves. Encircling the flower is a continuous border garland of dark-blue/pale-blue complex millefiori canes alternating with dark-green/white canes. The d..

A white clematis lampwork flower with copper aventurine veined petals encircling a pink, white & green millefiori cane stamen. Between the petals, the tips of green leaves can be seen, with another 3 leaves issuing from the short, curving stem. The flower is set over a basket of white latticinio tub..

A pink lampwork flower with 10 petals set around a lavender/green/white complex millefiori "stamen". 3 leaves grow from a short, curving stem. The flower is set over a white basket made of 2 different latticinio tubes.The flat, polished base has a lightly-ground “button” pontil mark in the centre. A..

Resting on peach/white & cranberry/white radials over a clear ground is a two-tone clematis. The 6 lavender-veined pink petals are set around a red/white millefiori “stamen”. Surrounding the flowerhead are the tips of green leaves; 4 further leaves are borne on a short, curved stem.Signed with a..

According to Peter Holmes, this type of weight is rare due to the fact that - during the time he was working with Paul Ysart at Caithness in the 1960s - the artist was trying to create a design in which the central motif and the garland “floated” above the colour ground. The problem was to ensure th..

A lampwork double clematis with rounded, pink petals, encircling a millefiori stamen is set over a translucent olive-green ground.  The short curved stem bears 3 green leaves. The continuous border garland is composed of green/white/red & ochre/white/red complex millefiori canes. Signed with a green..