20th Century Scottish Glass
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 60 pieces of 20th century Scottish glassware which date from between 1900 and 1990. This collection includes glass tableware, vases, vessels, table lamps, art glass, sculptures and paperweights. Early 20th century items include 28 hand enamelled pieces by Helen and Hannah Walton as well as pieces by James Couper and Sons and The City Glassworks. Some 215 items are made after 1920. These provide an overview of key glassworks and the experimentation and innovation by glass artists working in Scotland – particularly those trained in Edinburgh. They encompass a variety of techniques from blown, carved, slumped, fused, lampworked and moulded glass to enamelled, sandblasted, cut and engraved glass. A further 77 pieces include vessels, perfume bottles, paperweights and sculptural works by glass artists and workshops working in Scotland between 1960 and 1990. These include John Airlie, Jenny Antonio, Ann Fleming, Alison Geissler, Harold Gordon, Hourglass, Ed Ingleheart, Alison Kinnaird and John Lawrie. There are also works by Lindean Mill, Alastair McIntosh, Dennis Mann, Alison McConachie, Adrienne McStay, Moray Miller, Sue Murray, Paul Musgrove and John Orr, in addition to works by Perthshire Paperweights, Charles Ramsay, Selkirk Glass, Margot Thomson and Tom Young. Major glassworks represented include 50 pieces by the Perth-based Ysart family – including Monart, and Vasart glass and the later Strathearn Glass. There are 52 pieces by the Edinburgh and Leith Flint Glass Company and its later incarnation as Edinburgh Crystal, and 36 pieces by Caithness Glass.
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