20th Century Design - 21st October 2015
Lot 85
‡A rare diamond- engraved glass goblet by Laurence Whistler
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £2200
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Description
‡A rare diamond- engraved glass goblet by Laurence Whistler, dated 1983, decorated with a view of Woodborough Hill, engraved in line and stipple with a farm track leading to a hill with a tree clump, hay bales and a telegraph line in the foreground, inscribed to the foot for Tim and Polly Carson 16th July 1983, signed LW to a tag on the barbed-wire fence 18.5cm. high
Catalogue Notes
The view is from The Old Manor Alton Barnes, the Wiltshire farmhouse in which Laurence Whistler lived and the village where his son Simon spent his later years. Laurence was a close friend of the Carson family.
Geoffrey Beard Modern Glass, Studio Vista, page 107 for a comparable goblet entitled Idea of a City illustrated.