Above: 18th Century Baluster Wine Glass. Oil on 12 by 9 inch wood. Rose Strang 2025

Today’s still life; an 18th century Baluster wine glass – a type of glass with a heavy stem featuring bulbous patterns. I love those horizontal marks near the top of the glass that show the glass has stretched and that it’s hand-made. Isn’t it interesting that they would have worked so hard to remove these ‘flaws’ and nowadays we value them as part of the maker’s marks – not mass produced?

Tomorrow I’ll be painting the last in this series of three still lifes for The Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, for their upcoming Christmas exhibition.

If you like the look of any of these, feel free to contact the Graystone with enquiries.

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