A streaky dark grey/green and clear glass knobbly bowl, Whitefriars, 1960s/1970s

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A streaky dark grey/green and clear glass knobbly bowl, Whitefriars, 1960s/1970s

An amorphous rounded glass bowl with heavily modelled, undulating sides producing a ‘knobbly’ effect, the clear glass streaked with dark grey/green glass trails. This semi abstract, almost organic design is well known and was produced at the Whitefriars glassworks in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Founded by James Powell in 1834, who bought an existing glassworks in Whitefriars, London, the firm continued through the generations, relocating to Wealdstone in Middlesex in 1923. Many designers worked for it including Geoffrey Baxter, who created the celebrated ‘banjo’ and ‘drunken bricklayer’ vases, but bowls of this form and similar pieces with a ‘knobbly’ form were designed by William Wilson, Whitefriars’ chief designer, and Harry Dyer, this particular bowl with the pattern number 9613 and to be found in the catalogues from 1964 to 1973 (see image 8 for the 1964 catalogue). Unfortunately the high labour costs of handmade glass and the economic difficulties in the UK in the late 1970s made Whitefriars uncompetitive and it ceased trading in 1980 after which its factory was demolished.
Size: Width (max) 9.5cm, Top rim 8.5cm/7cm, base 5cm
Weight: 2.65kg
Date: 1964-1973
Condition: Good condition, no issues
Estimate: £30 – 40

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