Designer Margot Thomson’s interpretation of a popular summer pastime: stringing daisies together through the stems to form a chain. Encircling a large, yellow-centred daisy is a chain of 4 smaller daisies with their green stems. The design is set within a garland of white millefiori canes and enhanc..
A limited edition issued in 1990 featuring a 9-flower bouquet - created by lampwork artist Allan Scott - to commemorate the 90th birthday of H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. 4 flowers have millefiori cane “stamen” - and the deep-pink centre flower bears the numerals 9 0. The bouquet is comple..
Two yellow/red butterflies - made of elongated millefiori canes - are attracted by the fragrance of the bluish-mauve buddleia flowering beneath them. Encircling this Margot Thomson design is a pale-lilac, blue, green & white millefiori cane garland. The weight has a slightly different cut to the sta..
A 3 layer compound weight depicting life in and above a pond. In the water is a trout, its body enhanced with red aventurine and colourful markings. On the green-speckled surface of the pond are 3 pink & yellow water lilies and flitting above it is a red-bodied mayfly with spiralling latticinio wing..
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..
Designed by Allan Scott, the series of “Millefiori Miniatures” was issued over a number of years. At the centre of 2 rings of pale-lilac and ochre millefiori canes is a red heart on a translucent blue colour ground. The weight is cut with a top window.Acid-etched on the flat, polished base: Caithnes..
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 series “Millefiori Miniatures” - designed by Allan Scott - was issued over a number of years. Within a ring of blue & white millefiori canes is a 3-flower lampwork posy set on an opaque blue colour ground. The weight is cut with a top facet and 5 small side facets.Acid-etched on the flat, polish..
An Allan Scott design from the Whitefriars Collection: scarlet blooms in full flower with others partially sheathed in pale-green sepals. The design is repeated in a similar arrangement in the “sodden snow” ground. This weight has different cutting to the standard version: in addition to the circula..
A blue/white, lemon/white & red/white flower - each with a millefori cane in the centre and a small bud above - are set on a mottled semi-translucent aquamarine ground. The stems - in virtually the same colour as the ground - end at the White friar cane; a blue, hooded monk on a white roundel. Cut w..
Set in clear is a classical still-life arrangement of flowers and foliage in a brown/white vase. The red, white, pale-blue & yellow lampwork flowers - with millefiori cane “stamen” -and narrow, variously-coloured leaves are arranged in 2 layers against a grid-cut background. The weight is finished w..
A butterfly design created by Allan Scott during the time he was working at Caithness. The insect has a lemon & black striped body and short black antennae. Its finely-detailed, transparent wings are outlined in black. Completing the design - which is set over a clear strawberry-cut ground - is a do..