The Old Cello Player
Ale Glass
1983 (made), 1982 (designed)
1983 (made), 1982 (designed)
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Ale glass with bucket-shaped bowl and an air twist stem. Hand blown, the airtwist formed with coloured gas by the W Heaton method
Object details
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| Title | The Old Cello Player (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | hand blown, coloured gas technique, diamond-point stipple engraved |
| Brief description | Transparent ale glass with blue air twist stem, blown by William Heaton and engraved by David Howard-Maude-Roxby-Montalto di Fragnito. Designed in 1982 and made in 1983. The piece was made in London at the Royal Collection of Art and engraved in Geneva, Switzerland in 1983. |
| Physical description | Ale glass with bucket-shaped bowl and an air twist stem. Hand blown, the airtwist formed with coloured gas by the W Heaton method |
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| Marks and inscriptions | "D M-R-M di f 1983" (engraved) |
| Credit line | Gift of David Josefowitz |
| Object history | Only two examples are known, the other being in a private collection in America. |
| Bibliographic reference | Biographical material |
| Other number | 9707 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.10-1996 |
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| Record created | August 11, 2005 |
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