This stunning Whitefriars pattern 9675 'Cello' vase was designed by Geoffrey Baxter for the 1969 Whitefriars catalogue and is in the funky retro Tangerine colourway. This vase is in stunning condition and has its original Whitefriars label on the neck of the vase and its original factory pattern number label still applied to the pontil. The vase has no chips or scratches though as is often found in these pieces, there are a few flaws within the glass which do not reach the surface. One of these being an internal fissure line at the neck; these 'flaws' 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 handling rod was attached 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, enhanced by the fact that the vase still has its original labels intact.
Dimensions: height 7 inches (18cm), max width 5 inches (13cm) and 2½ inches (7cm) deep approximately.
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