Iris's Mouth-Blown Hummingbird Suncatcher

The last 162 from a 35-year Hertfordshire studio. A die-cut multi-colour stained-glass hummingbird in mid-flight — cobalt-blue head, turquoise throat, lime-green underbody, deep emerald wing shoulder, and a pale rose-pink far wing cut from genuine mouth-blown sheet glass made by a 71-year-old Bavarian glassblower who is closing his kiln at the end of August 2026.

The mouth-blown rose-pink wing is the heart of this piece. Mouth-blown sheet glass is made the way it has been made since the fourteenth century — by a glassblower physically exhaling through a six-foot iron blowpipe into a cylinder mould. The tiny bubbles and ripples in the finished wing are literally his preserved breath. There are now only four mouth-blown sheet-glass houses left in the world.

Dimensions: 22 × 14 cm · Weight: 110 g · Construction: Traditional Tiffany copper-foil with lead-tin solder · Hanging: Fine brass wire with suction-cup hook included.

Hand-cut, hand-foiled, hand-soldered in Iris Tremaine's converted carpenter's-shop studio in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Ships from Hertfordshire. 90-day money-back guarantee.