On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Rain

Wine Glass
1934 (made)
Artist/Maker
Stuart & Sons Ltd (manufacturer)
Red House Glassworks (glassworks)
Nash, Paul (designer)
Lowe, J. (glass-maker)
Nicklin, J. (glass-maker)
Place of origin
Stourbridge (made)

Wheel-cut wine glass.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Drinking
Object type
Wine glass
TitleRain (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Wheel-cut glass
Brief description
Wine glass, designed by Paul Nash, and possibly made and cut by J Lowe and J Nicklin at Stuart & Sons Ltd (Redhouse Glassworks), Britain (Stourbridge), 1934
Physical description
Wheel-cut wine glass.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.5cm
Style
20TH GB
Marks and inscriptions
'Stuart England' (Makers's mark, acid-etched)
Gallery label
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. This pattern, 'Rain', was the only one taken into the company's pattern books, excepting those by the company's own designer Ludwig Kny. The ceramics and glassware made for the experiment under the direction of T.A.Fennemore of Brain & Co. were shown first at Harrods in 1934 and then more fully at the exhibition 'British Art in Industry', Royal Academy, London, 1935. The drawing for this glass is annotated in Nash's handwriting 'Could you make a yellow glass on this principle. This is the revised version of the white glass you sent me'
Production
Possibly made and cut by J. Lowe and J. Nicklin at Stuart & Sons Ltd (Redhouse Glassworks).
Bibliographic reference
Broadfield House: British glass Between the Wars; Eatwell Ann....; V&A.M/Arts Council Thirties cat. See also photo record of Stuart & Sons pattern book in dept. Lib
Other number
9530 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.133-1961

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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