Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm Sir John Pitt Chatham is

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London 1958

Peter Lorimer sitting on a small bridge over a stream

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Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm Sir John Pitt Chatham isMaking coloured glass eyeballs, c1914 c1918. Master craftsmen use cut glass and enamel to make glass eyes for soldiers who lost their eyes in the First World War. A bulb of glass is blown and colour applied (top left); the eyes are baked and the colours set (top right); the eyeball is cut to fit (bottom left); the finished article is carefully polished (bottom right).