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Woodchaster

Drinking Glass
1934 (designed), 1936 (made)
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.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Drinking
Object type
Drinking glass
TitleWoodchaster (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 createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O6323/woodchaster-drinking-glass-kny-ludwig/
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