A unique piece designed by Alistair MacIntosh. Rising out of a snow-white ground - splashed with orange - are white rods and swirling blue ribbons representing the contestants in a fiercely fought battle to win. The weight is finished with a sloping circular facet.Engraved around the flat, polished ..
A finely lampworked puffin stands between 2 pale-lilac flowers. His colourful plummage - white breast, black wings, yellow, pale-blue & bright-red beak and scarlet legs - is in stark contrast to the aquamarine-flashed background. The composition of the design - with stylized seagulls overhead - achi..
This Colin Terris design was chosen as the Collector’s Society Paperweight in 1988. Within the glass sphere is a large pink & white multi-petalled flower with pale-blue & variegated-green sepals. The bloom floats above a green/white ground. A vibrant cobalt-blue flash covers the base of the weight.E..
Life in and around a pond, depicted in a 3-layer compound weight. In the pond itself are 5 red-aventurine tadpoles, while floating on the surface are 2 waterlilies. Poking though the layer of green algae are brown bullrushes. A WM signature cane is set near the edge of the weight on the bottom of th..
A one-off design re-awakening the fading memory of past experiences. Above a white crystalline ground, wispy “flames” of bluish-purple dichroic glass dance around a pointed silvery bubble. The motif is encased in glass with a strong purple tint. The spherical base tapers into 8 polished facets crown..
A beautiful floral design produced at Caithness: 2 lampwork primroses with glowing deep-purple, velvet-like petals and a dark-green/yellow millefiori cane “stamen” enclosed within a garland of pale-lilac/white corrugated canes. Surrounding the flowerheads are a number of dark-green, yellow-veined le..
A theme to which the artist has returned many times - the bat cave. Within a light-brown cave, amidst stalagmites and stalactites, a solitary bat is flying around its prey - a spider hanging on a fine thread. The weight is covered with an amethyst flash overlay.Inscribed and numbered around the edge..
Sculpted in hot glass by lampworker Allan Scott and set within a circle of fine pale-pink, white & green millefiori canes over clear ground, this apricot rose crowned with green leaves was issued in a small edition of 70 pieces to honour 70 years of Service to the Nation (1923-1993) by Queen Elizabe..
A six-point star on an opaque black ground. Yellow/orange complex millefiori canes form the points; the centre is filled with colourful composite canes, red/white millefiori and simple corrugated canes around a complex centre cane. 6 complex canes are spaced around the periphery. Signed with a PY ca..
A 5-point star made of millefiori canes in various shades of blue - accentuated by white, green, pink & caramel - over a translucent, mottled amber ground. The 5+1 faceting is unusual for an Ysart weight. Whether the flat facets were cut when the weight was made - or later - is a matter of conjectur..
A finely-detailed study of a beautiful - but dangerous - predatory fish gliding over coral formations in the depths of the ocean. The red eyes are set in distinctive pale-blue stripes running along both sides of the streamlined body from the pointed snout to the tail fins. Both body and fins are en..
A William Manson design from 1988 when he was again working at Caithness Glass. Seen through a polished, sloping front facet is a multi-petalled pink rose and a bud borne on a short curved stem. The tips of green leaves surround the flowerhead with another 3 on the stem. A bright red ladybird has ma..