Woodchaster
Drinking Glass
1934 (designed), 1936 (made)
1934 (designed), 1936 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Drinking glass, wheel-cut glass.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Woodchaster (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Wheel-cut glass |
| Brief description | Drinking glass, designed by Ludwig Kny, and probably made and decorated by J Lowe and J Nicklin at Stuart & Sons Ltd (Redhouse glassworks), Britain (Stourbridge), 1934-1936 |
| Physical description | Drinking glass, wheel-cut glass. |
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| Style | |
| Gallery label | Probably one of a range of designs for industrially-made ceramics and glass by contemporary painters and other artists, an experiment aimed at improving British industrial design conceived as a result of the Gorell report into the subject, 1933. All the glassware was made by Stuart & Sons. Ludwig Kny was Stuart's staff designer and it was almost solely his designs which were put into commercial production. |
| Production | designed 1934, probably made 1936 |
| Bibliographic reference | Broadfield House: British Glass Between the wars; Eatwell Ann: Harrods Experiment.... |
| Other number | 0485 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.183-1963 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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