Moorcroft The Glasgow Institute Plaque Butterfly Size 11 x 8 x

Size 11 x 8 x 8cm

Guild Piece for 2003

Modelled by Robert Jefferson

furniture and textile designer and his fabrics

and its history creating beautiful works of glass art

Moorcroft The Glasgow Institute Plaque Butterfly Size 11 x 8 xInspired by a poster for The Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts c. 1895 Nicola uses a dramatic colour palette of greens, white, black and purple. Stylised round roses in shades of pink and red appear in the top corners of the design. Below two figures, their hair flowing, stand silently in contemplation. The original poster in black, orange and khaki, was created by sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Frances's husband James Herbert MacNair. These