This stunning Whitefriars pattern 9675 'Cello' vase was designed by Geoffrey Baxter for the 1969 Whitefriars catalogue and is in the rare Indigo colourway. The vase has no chips or scratches and no noticeable internal bubbles, though these are all part of the character of hand blown glass. The base of the vase has a few small wear/use marks as you would hope to find on a piece of this age, and has the highly polished and ground Pontil mark where the punty rod was attached to flame polish the rim, and then snapped off.
In 1965 Baxter dragged the Whitefriars glass works in London into the 20th Century with his iconic 'textured range' which used radical production methods whereby many of the moulds were 'patterned' with nails, wire, bark, bits of wood and metal to create the designs, with the mould not only giving the surface texture but also the shape. Each piece is hand blown and no two pieces are exactly the same.
This vase would look stunning in a contemporary glass collection, or indeed in any retro collection, or as an great addition to any Whitefriars collection.
Dimensions: height 7 inches (18cm), max width 5 inches (13cm) and 2½ inches (7cm) deep approximately.
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