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Title: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 26, 2012, 01:56:10 PM
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120883794933

comments or attributions welcome.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 26, 2012, 05:52:40 PM
I can see a very startled dog, wearing flying goggles, but I see no angels.
(Whew - they might have been coming for me!)

I can see something which looks as if it's one of the monsters from "Pirates of the Carribean", but I still, thankfully,  ;D  see no angel.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 26, 2012, 07:12:37 PM
I can see a very startled dog, wearing flying goggles, but I see no angels.
(Whew - they might have been coming for me!)

I can see something which looks as if it's one of the monsters from "Pirates of the Carribean", but I still, thankfully,  ;D  see no angel.

????
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: wolkenreb on March 26, 2012, 07:33:30 PM
I'm with you Sue - I see a surprised looking dog.  The angel must be there, but once you've seen the dog it's hard to see anything else.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: johnphilip on March 26, 2012, 08:01:25 PM
Nothing like the Angels i have been out with.... more like one of the dogs....... ooooowps  i wish i hadnt said that !!! i bet i am in trouble with the Gals now , i do love you all . grovel creep and crawl. ;) jest a minute .
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: rosieposie on March 26, 2012, 11:04:17 PM
I collect glass Angels,  but I don't think I would want to give that one house room...... :o
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 26, 2012, 11:11:02 PM
hahahaha. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. weird, mid century, northern European. Everyone is ganging up on Scavo's Angel!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: wolkenreb on March 26, 2012, 11:15:56 PM
Poor Scavo!  No offense to either you or the angel intended I'm sure!  Hope you find an Ebayer interested in weird, mid century, northern European dogs angels!  ;)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Nemmie on March 27, 2012, 06:40:37 AM
Oh dear.

Also, I don't think those wings would be large enough to enable take off.

Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 27, 2012, 07:44:03 AM
More Friedrich's than Charlie's? (a joke for Germans)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2012, 11:07:56 AM
It's certainly an unusual thing. Where do you see the angel, Scavo?
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 27, 2012, 02:52:12 PM
Where do I see it? It is supposed to be an angel! It has wings on it's back, it's singing and holding a little bell and it's got silly hair. I know you all think it's ugly but it's not a gargoyle!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Greg. on March 27, 2012, 03:27:46 PM
My first impressions were hedgehog!  ;)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: oldglassman on March 27, 2012, 03:34:59 PM
LOL
            Don't worry Scavo I'm with you it's an angel , a little cartoonish but definitely an angel, as you say quite sweet really.

  Cheers ,
                    Peter.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Anik R on March 27, 2012, 03:35:55 PM
I don't see anything but an angel.
And I rather like it.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2012, 03:39:46 PM
Some folk do see jesus in clouds or mary on burnt toast...... so are some folk simply "seeing" an angel on a surprised dog wearing flying goggles..........?  ;D
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 27, 2012, 03:52:16 PM
Sue certainly seems to have it in my my odd, little angel. I wish I could delude myself, for then I could concur, that angels were somehow more beautiful north of the border ...
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 27, 2012, 04:35:29 PM
I'm sorry! Very sorry!

I don't have it "in" for your piece - except as an angel. It's just how I'm coming over in writing, honest !
(Angels don't exist except in superstitious stories and in overabundance in paintings related to superstition, where I got thouroughly sick of them taking up far too much space in art galleries and museums.)
It's a very cute dog, in goggles. 8)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Tigerchips on March 27, 2012, 05:16:52 PM
The shape rings a bell.  ;D
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 27, 2012, 05:51:10 PM
I wish I knew the emoticon for 'groan'. But honestly, Sue, you've caused more people to look at my glass vessel depicting a comic angel and turned a small ad into a thread. I thank you kindly. I said in the opening post "I welcome your comments" (or words to that effect) and I got them. I cannot then complain if I don't like them!  Yes, I know my little angel is trite. But some people like that kind of stuff. And as an anomaly of modernism he is a bit of fun. And don't think I haven't noticed the gender bias. Angels don't have to be female!

But in comparison to some of the truly awful (and often expensive glass) there is - I'm surprised my angel caused a stir at all.

Art galleries and museums - where were you going? You just have to walk past the Pre Raphaelite stuff and get to the 20th century and then once you get to WW1 you have to start looking at graphic design. By WW2 you certainly have to look to the graphics and industrial design.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2012, 11:09:42 AM
I was aware that at least you were getting interest from this conversation,  ;D
and you did invite comments - I'm starting to feel so guilty I'm nearly tempted to bid - although it's not my sort of thing at all!
And yes, I tend to go straight for the modernist bits of museums and art galleries - that and the mediaeval - but I have to walk past miles and miles and miles of madonnas and angels to find them,
(and mother used to dally in those bits when I was young - I have had a surfiet of them!)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 28, 2012, 11:18:29 AM
I'd forgotten I'd replied last night, Sue. Not bad when you factor in that I had imbibed about 6 bottles of strong beer before replying!

I did wonder if you were running my little angel down because you wanted to put other people off bidding! Hahahaha.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2012, 11:34:42 AM
No!
However, I do have a small interest in mould-blown tumblers. I'm not really sure why! They appeal to me much more than the transfer printed ones.

This is sort of a mould blown tumbler. There must be a mould made for it somewhere, you would have thought it might be easy to id, there would have been more than one made.

However, it would appear its not as easy as one might have assumed at all!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Tigerchips on March 28, 2012, 12:42:41 PM
Okay, i knew there was something about it. It's actually the hands, they are very much like the people decanter by Erik Hoglund. Similar designs were made by other companies, like Blenko and Empoli, so maybe worth a look in that direction.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2012, 01:01:26 PM
 8)
I can see this "angel" flying........!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: johnphilip on March 28, 2012, 01:29:59 PM
Scavo you spell it trout not trite thats just the way Prince Charles pronounces it , by the way a trout is not an Angel fish .  ;D ;D ;D Sorry mate i feel really bad about this  ;D honestly . ;D ;)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Tigerchips on March 28, 2012, 01:34:57 PM
"every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings"

The quote was from a movie called: 'It's a wonderful life' staring James Steward. I think bells are associated with religion/Christmas because of old religious rituals, and it's another way of comunicating with others that they are needed.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2012, 02:22:23 PM
And they were used by lepers to call for alms. Cows got dressed in bells so they could be found, cats get bells put on them to warn birds. ;D
Not always in a superstitious context, TC!
It's a good film, though. :-*
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Anik R on March 28, 2012, 02:26:42 PM
James Stewart :)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 28, 2012, 04:04:56 PM
Tigerchips: It's too 'realist' to be Erik Hoglund but certainly 'derivative'. I think this is what you are saying.

Sue, the wings certainly fit the hand making it a contender for the highball - tumbler award.

I actually keep thinking it should have a cork stopper. Maybe it came filled with sweeties and sold at Xmas?

It's mould blown and there is no mark on the base. I thought there was, but it is just a bubble.

There is a thread somewhere on here where I asked if anyone could ID it. That was posted months ago. I don't know if it's been deleted?


Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 28, 2012, 04:40:59 PM
Only cafe threads and inappropriate comments get removed. Your post will still be there, loitering sadly on its own!

I can actually imagine it filled with sweeties for the winter seasonal idiocy......  :-\

How much does it hold?
Can I fit a bottle of ginger beer (275ml) in it with a chocolate ice-cream float?  :D
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Tigerchips on March 28, 2012, 07:15:55 PM
No, not Erik Hoglund. My first thought was Empoli because of the colour, i shouldn't go off colours alone though.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: glassobsessed on March 29, 2012, 05:03:16 PM
I thought American and maybe Viking Glass but absolutely no idea why.

As for Hoglund I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at that suggestion but there are (likely) Japanese made lookalikes of his People decanters to be found but they are a fair bit cruder than your shocked looking hairy non angel with a bell.... Where is that hiding behind a sofa icon?

John
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 29, 2012, 05:07:29 PM
Laugh, John.  :P
It's more fun, and we seem to be enjoying a silly thread here anyway.

And there was me, considering a German or Austrian maker - because they're so big on the Christmas Markets - and I can see this belonging in one of them.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 29, 2012, 07:54:42 PM
I'd better box this one back up until November!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: flying free on March 31, 2012, 08:00:05 PM
find a cork that fits, and sell her with a bag of sweeties to fill her for a Christmas stocking.  I would buy her for that....but not til just before Christmas.  I happen to think they are rather sweet  :)
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Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on March 31, 2012, 10:10:52 PM
I think I saw a stall selling different size corks on a market. Now, where was that?
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Frank on April 01, 2012, 12:48:41 AM
Think about ecclesiastic glassware... hint of choristic angel.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: Frank on April 01, 2012, 12:49:18 AM
I actually like it.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on April 01, 2012, 11:05:52 PM
Well, someone loved it enough to buy it. Packed and ready for the postie tomorrow. Fare-the-well my sweet glass angel, with an odd little face!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: wolkenreb on April 02, 2012, 01:24:57 AM
Love is a funny business, if I remember rightly.  Fare thee well doggie faced angel!  (Dogs are much nicer than just about anything so . . .)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on April 02, 2012, 05:37:45 PM
I've never had thread go to 5 pages!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: rosieposie on April 02, 2012, 05:59:08 PM
And now I feel really badly that I said I wouldn't give it houseroom,  'cos I had grown used to seeing it,  and like some others,  I had grown to like it....even considering buying it!  ;) 
If you see another!!
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on April 02, 2012, 07:23:16 PM
You tease me Rosie.
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: rosieposie on April 02, 2012, 07:27:57 PM
Of course!!  Always.  ;)
Title: Re: Sweet glass angel on ebay (no known maker)
Post by: scavo on April 02, 2012, 08:43:52 PM
Never mind, I lost the ugly angel but I got some wonderful glass glass this weekend. A couple of pieces ID'd here already.