A beautiful Whitefriars pattern 9730 'Bottle' vase designed by Geoffrey Baxter and produced in 1969 and in the Tangerine colourway. This vase is in stunning condition and has its original Whitefriars label still applied, and has no chips, cracks or scratches. 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 make a really great starter piece for a contemporary glass collection, or as an impressive addition to any Whitefriars collection, further enhanced by the fact that the vase still has its original label intact.
Dimensions: height 8 inches (20cm), max diameter 3 inches (8cm) approximately
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