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Author Topic: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1  (Read 450 times)

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Offline islandoflittledetroit

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Hi everyone

I need some help with identifying these two hand blown, block molded art glass vases. Both are signed PG and the JF W1.
I am assuming they are English because of the W1, but they may not be.

Any clues wold be great.

Thanks

Scott

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Offline Greg.

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Re: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2014, 07:34:31 AM »
Hi Scott,

Welcome to the forum. I was wondering where your located..?

I suspect both of the pieces, may have originated in Australia and been blown at the Jam Factory, possibly by Peter Goss. The style is also typical of work from this period and the markings to the base would also seem to tie in with other examples that have surfaced. I'm sure Brewster, who recently posted some other examples in the following thread, would be interested in seeing these...

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,50529.msg317764.html#msg317764
 

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Offline islandoflittledetroit

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Re: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2014, 08:18:08 AM »
Thanks Greg, and yes I am in Australia. I will check out the other post and google Goss.
Kind regards
scott

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Re: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2014, 08:48:38 AM »
Hi Scott and thanks for showing these. Greg is correct: these are Peter Goss signed production pieces from the Jam Factory in Adelaide in the mid-1970s. There is more detail in my other post for which Greg has given the link. I provide some further information about Peter Goss in a blog article - see the link in my signature block below.

A hint on photos for the GMB. You can make them considerably larger, and hence clearer for those of us with older eyes and still be below the limit of file size, if you use a plain background.

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Offline islandoflittledetroit

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Re: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2014, 08:59:37 AM »
Thanks Trevor ... I did have trouble getting them down to an appropriate file size! Thank you for the links, I really love these pieces but was quite stumped.

Kind regards

scott

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Help identifying two English art glass vase signed PG JF W1
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2014, 12:52:56 PM »
 ;D

I'm in complete agreement. (You're up much earlier than I am, Greg!)
Gorgeous, stunning, fabulous... 8)
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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