Not a paperweight, but a perfume bottle by one of the leading designers & paperweight-makers at Caithness Alistair MacIntosh. The inner bottle - in the palest blue - is decorated with swirling white, red & pale-green latticinio threads, which meet on the underside. This is then encased in a second l..
A small domed weight with a polished, sloping front facet giving a view onto “a mystical island rising out of the moon’s ocean”. Commissioned in 1992 in a small limited edition of 50, the weight was designed by Alistair Macintosh and the engraving on the frosted surface - which enhances the intepret..
A magnum concentric inscribed Caithness Glass 1965 on the base. Surrounding an orange/white/green centre cog are two rows of millefiori canes - one with deep-pink/white/green composite canes, the other composed of ochre/white cog clusters alternating with red/white/green corrugated canes. Between th..
A one-off design by Alistair MacIntosh; beautifully engraved by Helen Macdonald. The up-and-over polished front facet reveals a blue filigree spiral supporting an elongated silver bubble - the mythical sea sprite. Engraved on the frosted outer surface, are swaying aquatic plants. The white crystalli..
“Sleek, stylish and upwardly mobile” was Margot Thomson’s description of this abstract design with its sloping, polished front facet. High Flyer is an interpretation of aiming for the top - embodying the aspirations of striving to get ahead. The sleek geometry of the lines and the colours - silver, ..
An attractive design: a Lily of the Valley with 4 white, bell-like flowers, green leaves and curving stem. Set over a cobalt-blue colour ground, the flower is encircled by a border garland of pale-green/white millefiori canes with black crosses in the centre.The flat, polished base is acid-etched: L..
The “master sample” used for a small limited edition of 40 weights produced by Caithness. The piece captures the microcosm of a small rock pool that is flooded at high tide. Swimming in the clear water are a red aventurine manta ray and 2 green aventurine fish. Amongst the pink and green aqua..
A 3-row spaced concentric with alternating canes in each row. Surrounding the green/white complex cane in the centre are millefiori canes in shades of pale & deep-pink, white, pale-amber, green and different shades of blue. Although the colour ground appears to be opaque black - it is, in fact, a se..
A one-off design by Margot Thomson in an unusual slender, tapering form. From the base - a vortex of purple and cranberry, topped with glistening bubbles - elongated bubbles, accompanied by purple & cranberry streamers, swirl upwards to the top of the weight. The front facet is polished; the back an..
A Margot Thomson design in the form of a teardrop with 2 wedge-shaped polished facets in the frosted surface. Rising out of a blue & white crystalline ground is a spiralling blue & green striped form supporting an elongated silver bubble - representing the artist’s interpretation of “the legendary m..
An Alastair MacIntosh design. From a large golden sphere encased in glowing amber, white threads swirl around the weight and meet at a smaller sphere near the base. The top of the weight is finished with a large, flat top facet and 8 slightly-concave, adjoining facets around the side.Acid-etched on ..
A teardrop weight designed by Margot Thomson in white, silver & aquamarine - enhanced by the satin finish and intricate cutting. In astrology, Aquarius - the water bearer - is the 11th sign of the zodiac. Script-signed around the flat, polished base: Aquarius Caithness Scotland and numbered 62-500. ..