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Work currently for sale

Blue Lavender Vase

 

21.3H x 8cm D blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal cylindrical vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, wheel and drill engraved 2023. There is a very fine overlay of purple on top of the blue which gives a greater depth to the shadow in the blue.

 

For sale

This vase is  for sale with Adrian Sassoon.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: courtesy of The Scottish Gallery

 

 

 

contact:  email@adriansassoon.com  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Acorns II

 

7cm H x 8cm D solid 30% lead crystal paperweight, wheel cut and polished 2022 with oak leaf and acorns design. This crystal was among left over  glass in the Whitefriars factory when it closed in the 1960s.

 

It is available for sale from the artist .

 

katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk 

 

Photo: K Coleman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moss

 

15.5cm H x 9.5cm D emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2017.

 

For Sale

This vase is for sale with Adrian Sassoon. email@adriansassoon.com 

 

 

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

 

 

 

 

Pale Pink Hydrangea

 

8.5cm H x 17cm D pale ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2022.

 

For Sale

This bowl is for sale with Adrian Sassoon.

email@adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horsetails Vase

 

22cm H x 13cm D lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2022.

 

For Sale

This bowl is for sale with The Scottish Gallery.

 

Equisetum arvense or 'horsetails' is a plant species belonging to an ancient family of ferns that reproduce by spores rather than seeds, the last survivor of a genus, varieties of which were prolific in the understorey of the late Paleozoic forests, also abundant in coal deposits of the Carboniferous Period; but this particular type first appeared in the Jurassic period. A true living fossil of great beauty, it grows in clumps, which is why I chose this thick-walled vase that duplicates the outside stems inside.

 

contact: email@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

Photo: The Scottish Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(left) Seaweed Paperweight

8cm high x 8cm diameter clear 30% lead crystal glass, blown by the Whitefriars factory in the 1960s, cut, polished and engraved  in 2022. 

Inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel.

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

FOR SALE with Adrian Sassoon. 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

(right) Flustra II Paperweight

8cm high x 8cm diameter clear 30% lead crystal glass, blown by the Whitefriars factory in the 1960s, cut, polished and engraved by the artist in 2022. 

Inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

FOR SALE with Adrian Sassoon. 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com 

 

SOLD WORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oak Leaves & Acorns Teabowl

8cm high x 12.5cm diameter burgundy glass overlaid on clearlead crystal glass, blown to my design by Sonja Klingler, cut, polished and engraved by the artist in 2022. 

Photo: K Coleman

 

Sold

Recently sold by The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 

contact: kirsty@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Ginkgo Teabowl

8cm high x 12.5cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clearlead crystal glass, blown to my design by Sonja Klingler, cut, polished and engraved by the artist in 2022. 

Photo: K Coleman

 

Sold

katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roman Tile Tower Blocks

 

15cm H x 8.6cm D smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2023.

 

I saw a tiled floor in the ruins of a Roman villa, rectangular with a corner cut off, making an interesting geometric design. I have turned them into modern tower blocks.

 

SOLD

 

Photo: Katharine Coleman

 

 

 

contact: katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk    

 

 

 

 

 

Goosegrass Vase

 

22cm H x 13cm D lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2023.

 

SOLD

This vase was sold by Adrian Sassoon at The Treasure House Fair, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea  in June 2023. www.adriansassoon.com 

 

Goosegrass, or cleavers as they are known in the South West of England, have fine hooks with which they cling onto surrounding plants.

 

contact: email@adriansasssoon.com  

 

 

 

 

Photo: courtesy of Adrian Sassoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sea Dragons Bowl

23.2H x 23.7cm D smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, wheel and drill engraved 2023. 

 

SOLD

This bowl was on show with The Contemporary Glass Society's Open exhibition at The World of Glass, St Helens in autumn 2023 and is sold.

 

 

 

Photo: Courtesy of The Scottish Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flowering Rush Vase

13.6H x 7.2cm D emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead Edinburgh crystal vase, blown to my design at Northlands Creative Glass in 2004 wheel and drill engraved 2022. 

 

Sold

This narrow vase was sold by The Scottish Gallery at my  exhibition Nature Reflected in May 2023. 

 

 

 

Photo: The Scottish Gallery

 

 

 

contact: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow Ginkgo Bowl

 

9cm H x 13cm D yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2022.

 

Sold

This bowl was on display at Meisterstrasse in Residence, 11-14 May to 27 May at the exhibition by 'Meisterstrasse' at the Austrian Embassy, 18 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8H. 

It is featured in a short film in the V&A Museum series "How Was This Made? Glass Engraving: Katharine Coleman", to celebrate the UN International Year of Glass 2022. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=230uCZj2RPs

 

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Princelings (inspired by the Grimm Brothers' Frog Prince)

 

20.4 cm H x 15cm D lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2021.

 

SOLD

Princes have been a topic of interest in Britain this year. Here is the same old well from the Grimm Brothers' "Frog Prince", with further aspiring princes clambering up the slippery sides to find their own princesses, their sibling rivals glimmering through the water.

 

This vase was on show in 2023 at "GRAVUR ON TOUR: Gernheim 2023", the 10th Anniversary exhibition of work by the Glass Engraving Network engravers from 12 European countries at the Glashuette Gernheim, the famous LWL Industrial Museum Gernheim near Petershagen in Germany.

 

 

Photo: Agata Pec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mistletoe Bowls

8.5cm high x 18cm diameter lime green glass overlaid on clear 24% lead crystal glass, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and engraved  in November 2022. 

Photo: K Coleman

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon. 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hanami Bowls

 

9.5 cm H x 16cm D ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: courtesy of Adrian Sassoon

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon at Masterpiece London 2022

 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Kimono Bowls

 

10 cm H x 16cm D Turkish blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2021.

 

Photo: courtesy of Adrian Sassoon

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon at Masterpiece London

2022

 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong Dreaming II

 

18cm high x 18cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2021.

 

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

SOLD but still on show at the Coburger Glaspreis 2022 exhibition of finalists' work, European Museum of Contemporary Glass, Roedenthal, Germany, 

April 10th - October 3rd, 2022.

 

contact:   Sekretariat@kunstsammlungen-coburg.de 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goldfish IX

13.8cm high x 17cm diameter ruby over yellow glass overlays on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel and drill engraved 2020. 

Photo: Adrian Sassoon

 

SOLD in 2021 by Adrian Sassoon

Contact: email@adriansassoon.com

www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

                            

 

 

                                      

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Clerkenwell Bowl

8.5 cm high x 12 cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Sonja Klingler. Cut, polished and wheel and drill engraved 2018. 

Celebrating the narrow streets and mixture of architecture, old and new in Clerkenwell, London

Photo: The Scottish Gallery

 

SOLD  by The Scottish Gallery 2022

Contact: christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

                    

 

 

 

                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lizards

8.5cm high x 18cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Wheel and drill engraved 2022. 

Photos: P Layton London Glassblowing Gallery

 

SOLD by London Glassblowing Gallery at Collect Online 2022.

 

Contact: gena@londonglassblowing.co.uk  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bergamot

12.2 cm high x 15cm diameter yellow topaz glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel and drill engraved 2021. 

Bergamot originated from a natural cross-pollination between a lemon and a bitter orange in the mid-18th Century. It was then grown in Calabria as a valuable crop for perfume and flavouring food, known in England for the distinctive taste of Earl Grey tea. During Lockdown this year, a small bergamot bush in the garden bore fruit.

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon in January 2022

Contact: email@adriansassoon.com

www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Sargasso

18 cm high x 18cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel and drill engraved 2021. 

The design is taken from a drawing of thalassicolla nucleata, a bioluminescent plankton discovered by Huxley in the Sargasso Sea. The brother of my prep school headmistress, Huxley's son Julian  would visit us from time to time and took delight in theatrical scientific demonstrations for us, all in a cloud of cigar smoke.

Photo: Sylvain Deleu

 

SOLD in January 2022 by Adrian Sassoon

Contact: email@adriansassoon.com

www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bermondsey Street

20cm high x 22.5cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Loco Glass of Cirencester. Wheel and drill engraved 2021. 

Photo: P Layton London Glassblowing Gallery

 

SOLD by London Glassblowing Gallery 2022

 

Contact: gallery@londonglassblowing.co.uk

 

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

Horsetails

16.5cm high x 11.3cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Wheel and drill engraved 2021. 

Photos: P Layton London Glassblowing Gallery

 

SOLD to Adrian Sassoon. 

 

 

 

                  

Mushrooms

14cm high x 14.5cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel and drill engraved 2019. Selected for the British Glass Biennale 2019 exhibition and also for the National Glass Centre Sunderland's European Glass Prize exhibition 2022.

Photo: Ester Segarra

 

SOLD in 2022 after the exhibiiton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tulips

 

20.5 high x 16cm diameter copper ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: Adrian Sassoon

 

SOLD

at Masterpiece 2020 Online with Adrian Sassoon. See online catalogue: 

Contact: email@adriansassoon.com

www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allium Paperweight

 

 

8.5cm high x 9cm diameter 30% lead crystal 1960s Whitefriars blank, wheel and drill engraved 2018.

Photo: K Coleman

 

Recently SOLD by Adrian Sassoon. 

 

Contact: email@adriansassoon.com

www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gold Flustra Bowls

 

Each 8.5 cm high x 12cm diameter yellow topaz glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2020.

 

SOLD BY London Glassblowing Gallery in 2020.

 

Contact: gallery@londonglassblowing.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lime

 

17.7cm high x 22cm diameter emerald glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2018.

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong Dreaming

 

21cm high x 19cm diameter dark blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

 

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Californian Poppies

 

8cm high x 15.5cm diameter yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

 

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cherries

 

6.5cm high x 12cm diameter ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

 

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lavender Bowl

 

12.5cm high x 15.5cm diameter heliotrope glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

 

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbican Bowl III

 

24.5 cm high x 26.5cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

On show with London Glassblowing at Collect 2020 at Somerset House 27th Feb - 1st March 2020. 

 

SOLD at Collect 2020 by London Glassblowing.

 

Contact: gallery@londonglassblowing.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sepia Clerkenwell Bowls

 

 

9cm high x 11 wide sepia glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Sonja Klingler, cut, drill and wheel engraved 2020. Sterling silver bowl lid, engraved and enamelled, the work to my design by the late silversmith Phil Barnes 2019. 

Photo: K Coleman

 

SOLD by the artist: katharine@katharinecoleman.co.uk  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kimono

 

9.2cm high x 15.5cm diameter Turkish blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2019.

 

Photo: William Van Esland

 

Shown at "A Fine Line", my exhibition in November 2019 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ

SOLD  

 

Contact: Christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

(+44) 0131 5581200 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papyrus Bowl

 

18 cm high x 15.5cm diameter lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Andy Potter. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2018.

 

Photo: courtesy of Adrian Sassoon, London

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon to a collector in Switzerland 2019

 

 contact: email@adriansassoon.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Flower Vase

21.5cm high x 13.5cm diameter, Turkish blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2018.

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon at TEFAF 2018 in Maastricht.

 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sargasso Lime Bowl

21cm high x 16.7cm diameter, lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2016, 5.8kg

 

Inspired by the bioluminescent plankton Thallassicolla nucleata which is found only in the Sargasso Sea, discovered by Huxley.

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon.

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Where's MY Prince?

10.2 cm high x 17.5cm diameter green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2017.

 

Acquired by the Glasmuseum Frauenau,
Staatliches Museum zur Geschichte der Glaskultur (Bavarian State Museum of the History of Glass) in 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canary Wharf Vase I

28 cm high x 9cm diameter smoke grey over emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2016.

 

SOLD

 

PHOTO; Ester Segarra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marmalade

20cm high x 11cm diameter, ruby over yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015.

 

A recipe for marmalade found in my 1907 copy of  Mrs Beeton's "Household Management" requires all the Seville oranges to be sliced and laid in a dish to soak with the sugar for four days before boiling.

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon in 2017

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horsechestnut Vase

21cm high x 12cm diameter green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015.

 

SOLD by Adrian Sassoon 

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teabowl

10 cm high x 11cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2017.

 

SOLD by Vessel Gallery in 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October - Golden Ginkgo

17cm high x 11.8cm diameter yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015.

 

SOLD at TEFAF Maastrich 2017 by Adrian Sassoon.

contact: email@adriansassoon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small Goldfishbowls IX

8.8cm high x 12.5cm diameter ruby over yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2016. 

SOLD at fundraising auction "Raising the Roof",  The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, LONDON WC1N 3AT, November 2016

www.artworkersguild.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haeckel Gold Flustra Bowl II

8cm high x 12.5 cm diameter yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2016. 

SOLD by the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2016

Contact: christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September - Mushrooms

17cm high x 11cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015.

SOLD at TEFAF 2016, Maastricht, with Adrian Sassoon.

contact: email@adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camelia Tea Bowl ii

6.3cm high x 12.2 cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2016.

SOLD in Germany, September 2016

 

 

 

 

Dark Blue Pollen Vase

36cm high x 9.5 cm diameter dark blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 20165. 

SOLD  by Adrian Sassoon at Masterpiece 2016 

 

 

 

 

 

August - Summer Skies

11cm high x 17.5 cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015. 

SOLD  at  "All the Year Round", The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2015

Contact: christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June - Little Bowl of Sunshine

4cm high x 12 cm diameter orange/yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015. 

SOLD at my solo exhibition, "All the Year Round", The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2015.

Contact: christina@scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

 

Allium

31.75cm high x 9.8cm diameter ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2015. Signed on base.

 

SOLD at TEFAF 2015 in Maastricht, by Adrian Sassoon. 

  www.adriansassoon.com   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haeckel Flustra Gold Ovule

12cm long orange/gold glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2013. 

2016 acquired by The National Glass Centre, Sunderland 

 www.nationalglasscentre.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November

16cm high x 14.5cm, 6kg blue-black glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and engraved 2014. Weight 6kg.

SOLD at the 2015 British Glass Biennale 28/05 - 26/06/2015 whre it  won the People's Prize, awarded by Warm Glass plc.

 www.biennale.org.uk  

 

 

 

 

 

City of London 

17.8cm high x 16cm diameter grey over amber glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2013.

SOLD at the Coburg Glass Prize exhibition 2014,  in Germany. 

 

 

 

 

 

Broken China Bowls

14.4cm high x 14.8cm diameter blue glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2013.

SOLD at the Coburg Glass Prize exhibition 2014,  in Germany. 

Acquired by MUDAC, the Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts in Lausanne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small Light Blue Haeckel Bowl

7.5cm high x 12.5cm diameter,  ruby glass overlaid on heavy clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2013.

 

Sold  at  Taste Contemporary Craft,   Geneva, 02/2014  Contact:  monique.deul@taste-contemporarycraft.com

 

 

 

 

 

Little Grey Fishbowls IV

7.5cm high x 13cm diameter, smoke grey glass overlaid on heavy clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2013.

 

SOLD at CHASE 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow Waterlily V I

Two separate pieces of glass, the top is 15.65cm diameter  x 6.4cm high, yellow glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished, drill and wheel engraved 2012.

The base is a clear glass tube, 5.4cm high x 4.4cm diameter at the top and 4.7cm at the base, cut and engraved 2012. 

Commissioned 2012 by Corning Museum of Glass in the United States of America.

 

 

 

 

 

Flights of Fancy III

14.25cm diameter x 17.5cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished, wheel engraved 2011. 

SOLD at TEFAF 2013 by Adrian Sassoon. www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

White Camelia Vase

 

4.55kg, 32cm high x 9cm diameter emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011.

Japanese green tea is made from a white flowering camellia bush. 

Recently acquired by National Museums Northern Ireland, Feb 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

Haeckel Diatomaea Vase IV

 

27.4cm high x 8cm diameter smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal vase, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2012. 

Ernst Haeckel published many drawings of planktons and diatomaea in the 1890s which have inspired artworks ever since.

Sold Dec 2012 at Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hyde Park Bowl

 

17cm high  & 34cm diam olive over green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal glass, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2012. 

Sold Dec 2012 at Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris.  

 

 

 

 

 

City by Moonlight

10cm diam high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.

In the collection of the Glass Museum, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic. 

 

 

 

 

 

Haeckel Grey Rhapidozoum Vase

10cm diam x 30.5cm high smoke grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2011.

One of several pieces inspired by the engravings of Ernst Haeckel, the great 19th Century German zoologist and engraver.

Sold by Adrian Sassoon at TEFAF, Maastricht 2012  www.adriansassoon.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sakura Paperweight

 

7cm high x 6.4cm diameter ruby glass overlaid on clear lead crystal paperweight, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2010.

SOLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little Limes Bowl II

14cm diameter x 8cm high lime green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009.

Sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon,   www.adriansassoon.com 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Haeckel III

 

Amber overlaid clear lead crystal ovule, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2010. Size: 8 x 8x9cm. 

 

Sold at Collect by the Scottish Gallery in May 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Crown Princess Takes Tea

12.5cm diam x 8.5cm high bowl, 4cm diam x 9.5cm high vase and 4cm diam x 2cm high lid stand, all in emerald green glass overlaid on clear lead crystal, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009.           

Materials for an imaginary informal summer tea ceremony made with engraved glass. The tea bowl for the Crown Princess is semi-solid. Refracted in the middle is a miniature bowl, a little clone of herself, her small daughter. She lacks a son; that this may not be her fault is not questioned. She sits in the Imperial Palace appearing to take tea, but she cannot drink out of such a bowl, so she cannot participate in society. Tea is at the heart of Japanese society. The Princess has chosen a design of cooling green camellia leaves and white camellia flowers,  the plant from which Japanese tea is made. The lid stand is a reference to the ring stand for the hot lid of the water boiler.

This piece was sold by the Scottish Gallery at Collect at the Saatchi Galleries, London in May 2010 to the Norwich City Museum.

www.scottish-gallery.co.uk 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Blocks Vase, 28cm high, thin grey/green overlaid clear lead crystal vase blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007. 

 

Cities often seem to have more buildings than people in them. These people are both sociable and isolated. The view inside the vase of both the outside engraved pattern and the inner refracted pattern gives further interest. The countless windows permit one to look both in and out.

 

This piece  won the inaugural Glass Sellers Prize for Engraving on Glass 2007 and was  selected for "Side by Side", the Contemporary Glass Society's 10th anniversary exhibition in 2007. 

 

Sold at my solo  exhibition at Galerie Hélène Porée, 1 Rue de l’Odéon,  Paris,  in 2009.

 

 

UPtownDOWNtown bowl

17cm diameter smoke greeny grey glass overlaid on clear lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Potter Morgan Glass, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2009. The pictures explain it - the pattern reads either way up.

Sold 2010 at Collect by the Scottish Gallery

Yellow Corals

18cm diameter  x 15cm high, opaque canary yellow overlaid clear lead crystal bowl, blown to artist's design by Potter Morgan Glass. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2007.

 

 

2009 sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon.  email@adriansassoon.com  

 

Red Corals II

14.5cm high x 14cm diameter semi opaque red overlaid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch. Cut, polished and wheel engraved 2008.  

 

Sold in 2008 

Waltzing Crabs

15cm diameter  x 17.5cm high smoke grey over laid lead crystal bowl, blown to my design by Carl Nordbruch.  Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2008.

 

This piece was sold by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, www.adriansassoon.com 

 

It  won The 2008 Pearsons Prize for Best Use of Engraving on Glass, sponsored by Ed Hoy's International, USA. 

Green Barnacles Vase (left) 

26cm high x 16cm wide vase with colour overlays: 

opaque green overlaid on opaque white on clear and one more layer of opaque white with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass. Drill engraved and stained, 2007.  

 

Inspired by celadon ware found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.

 

Yellow Barnacles vase (right)

26cm high x 13cm wide vase, with colour overlays:

opaque canary yellow overlaid on opaque white overlaid on clear and a further layer of opaque white, with opaque white applications, blown to my design and with my assistance by Potter Morgan Glass.   Drill engraved and stained, 2007. 

 

Inspired by Chinese ceramics found in a 14th Century Chinese wreck off Japan.

 

Sold in 2008.

 

 

 

 

Meiji Flower, 18cm diameter 12cm high gold overlaid clear glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved 2006.

 

This piece was selected for and sold at the 2006 Dudley British Glass Biennale show.

Edo Orange II, 18cm diameter ruby over gold overlaid glass bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin. Cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004   

 

(illustrated on acrylic ring stand)

 

It was selected for the finalists' exhibition for the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 at the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg and acquired by the Neumann Collection. 

 

A similar piece has been acquired by the V&A Museum. A third was acquired by Dan Klein Associates and has recently been donated by them to the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh where it will be on show from May 2011 in A Passion for Glass.

Chiyoda-ku, 24 cm diameter gold overlaid bowl, blown to my design by Neil Wilkin, cut, polished and wheel engraved, 2004.

 

 This bowl represents Tokyo, the heart of Japan, with central Chiyoda-Ku, with its beautiful gardens and the Imperial Palace suspended in its centre.

 

 This piece won an Honourable Mention Prize at the Coburger Glaspreis 2006 and was acquired by the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg. It is inow on display in the new contemporary glass museum at Rosenau near Coburg, Germany.

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