Topic: Twists Glass - Incalmo Perfume Bottle

[jakgene]

Was in the UK over your summer - visited Edinburgh and the National Museum of Scotland, and just had to buy this while I was there.

Just for show and tell!

I love the colours - it was also available in a red/purple combination I think - but I preferred this one.  signed by Mike Hunter and dated 2010

[chopin-liszt]

Lovely piece by a lovely and incredibly talented maker.
 

[jakgene]

I agree. I think it's stunning.  Thanks!

[chopin-liszt]

He was giving demonstrations during the Edinburgh Conference.

I was particularly ticked pink by his use of an old-fashioned bone handled table knife as a tool.
I use those sorts of knives daily, I love them.

His philosophy was that there is no right or wrong way to do anything - you just use or do what works.

[glassobsessed]

He makes similar as a vase too: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/MiscellaneousGlass#5803181244859642978

A superb glass maker Mr Hunter.

John

[chopin-liszt]

I love the tumblers he makes of multicoloured latticino - they look tartan.
I have a Rio vase and a couple of his lovely lizard weights...

more here:

http://www.michaeljameshunter.co.uk/galleryone.html

[glassobsessed]

This fruit bowl sized bowl is my favourite of the bits I have had in my hands, not complex but one of those hand made objects that is so precise you can imagine it being machine made. It was thin walled but felt very heavy, perhaps a high lead content to the glass. That yellow rim was trailed around twice, not once, it was so tall when I first picked it up I thought incalmo. A 'simple' but really lovely bit of glass, I hung onto it for quite a while before it escaped.