The shape designed by the artist, the bowl engraved with a temple on a hilltop, the columned portico half in light against a starry sky and half in shadow, a city in the distance, on a teared knop, trumpet stem and folded foot, titled on the base, 25.7cm high

Footnotes

Illustrated by Laurence Whistler, The Image on the Glass (1975), pl.38 and p.55, where the artist described the scene thus... 'It stands on a hill-top above Megalopolis, stretching to the horizon, the limitless city of the future. But the steps have crumbled and the way up is forgotten. Its columns, interchanging solid and space, cannot be counted. It guards within it, or below it, suspended from the portico, another notion of night and day, Edenic or Arcadian.'

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Please note that this lot is signed and dated 'LW 70' in diamond-point within the engraving of the city.

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The Temple of Night and Day: A stipple engraved goblet by Laurence Whistler, executed in 1970

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