Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Maurice Marinot was a pioneer in the development of glass as a studio art form. He began his career as a painter, one of the Fauves (‘Wild Beasts’) of French art, whose bold use of pure colour earned them the nickname. Marinot made unique pieces, created using hand-methods and without the use of moulds. Using the full range of glassmaking skills, he blew and worked the hot glass, acid-etched and wheel-cut it when cold. He encased coloured glass within clear glass like geological strata. He created the effect of cracked ice by plunging hot glass into cold water, or a suggestion of moving water through the careful control of air bubbles.

Bottle and stopper, glass; standing on a straight sided rectangular base, squat, straight sided body with rounded edges and corners, with a straight sided neck, and clear spherical stopper; thick-walled sides encasing a rounded shaped layer inside body and neck of small, tightly packed golden bubbles; acid etched leaving a triangle to each corner, and four elongated triangles around the neck.