A rara Lilac colour Whitefriars pattern 9819 'Tapering Textured Finger' vase designed by Geoffrey Baxter and produced in this colour for one year only in 1974. This vase is in excellent condition and has no chips, cracks or scratches. The rim is flame polished and the base of the vase has just a few tiny 'shelf' marks as you would hope to find on a piece of this age, with the highly polished and ground Pontil mark where the 'punty' rod was attached to control the piece whilst the rim was flame polished, 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.
Vase is approximately 7 inches tall.
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