A scarce Hartley Wood & Co. thick-walled streaky glass vase, with whisps of different pinks and opal glass on a clear ground shot through with random bubbles, free-blown into a very unusual hemispherical shape. It's deceptively large and very heavy. It was made in Sunderland, England, in the 1930s.

Hartley Wood & Co. were primarily a manufacturer of stained window glass, and these vases were produced in many shapes, colours and sizes, mainly to showcase the beauty of their 'antique' glass panes. The glass was always quite rustic, in that it was generally lopsided and crudely finished - but charmingly organic because of it.

Finished to the base with a snapped-off pontil.