One of a series of designs - inspired by ancient medicinal plants - which Allan Scott created for the Whitefriars Collection at Caithness. Nerium Oleander was used in ancient Greece as an antidote for snake bites. The clear glass is set with 2 pale-pink/white flowers in full bloom, 3 tightly-furled ..
One of Philip Chaplain’s last - and most effective - designs before he left Caithness. The pointed dome-shaped weight contains an elongated orange-speckled silver bubble over a swirling pale-blue & white form and a “cobweb” of thousands of tiny air bubbles - with an aquamarine flash around the base ..
Alastair MacIntosh’s interpretation of a Mexican legend. A wedge-shaped weight with front and back facets, smaller side facets and vertical flutes around the lower circumference. Stunning colours: white/green leaves with a pink & blue form rising out of a pink & blue diaphanous “veil” over a spatter..
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..
An unusual hexagonal shape with a lavender-coloured abstract “sea plant blooming through a myriad of silvery bubbles” above a spattered blue and silver crystalline ground. Design: Caithness Paperweight Studios.Inscribed and numbered (8/50) on the flat, polished base. (Original certificate)..
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..
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..
A domed weight designed by Helen MacDonald who took her inspiration from traditional Irish dancing, which has become increasingly popular in the last few years. Through the sloping front facet we see her interpretation of two dancers and etched into the frosted surround are the steps the dancers are..
One of Margot Thomson’s excellent abstract designs, issued in 1996: Vivaldi - depicted in a beautiful teardrop weight backed by an amber flash. Floating above a brilliant- aquamarine cushion - covered in a layer of tiny air bubbles - is a mottled pale-purple spiked form and an elongated silver bubbl..
Designed by Philip Chaplain this dome-shaped weight has 3 polished facets which meet in a point at the top. Inside, a single silver sphere floats above a blue “shell”. The pink & blue mottled decoration around the lower third lends the weight its fascinating play of colours.Acid-etched on the flat, ..
A fine Colin Terris design depicting a stylized, magenta-coloured Conquistador “battle helmet” over a layer of controlled bubbles. Cut with a concave top and 6 side facets plus 12 vertical flutes. Scratch-signed und numbered on the flat, polished base: Caithness Scotland Conquistador 16/50. (Origina..