Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm and by the time Nash

and by the time Nash handed the company on to his successsor

A road can be sen at the left hand side of the scene

but here is represented by Britannia who has her eyes fixed so firmly on the distant horizon that she fails entirely to see the three children at her feet who

posed standing

Making coloured glass eyeballs Size:M: 75 x 60cm and by the time NashMaking 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).