Woodchaster

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Glass, Room 131

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Artist/Maker	Stuart & Sons Ltd (manufacturer) Red House Glassworks (glassworks) Kny, Ludwig (designer) Lowe, J. (decorated by) Nicklin, J. (decorated by) Lowe, J. (glass-maker) Nicklin, J. (glass-maker)
Place of origin	Stourbridge (made)

Drinking glass, wheel-cut glass.

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Categories	Glass Drinking
Object type	Drinking glass
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.
Dimensions	Height: 10.7cm
Style	20TH GB
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	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	CIRC.183-1963

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O6323/woodchaster-drinking-glass-kny-ludwig/

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