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Title: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration - ID = Edward Clark, USA
Post by: Bernard C on June 18, 2009, 02:04:33 PM
(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/normal_DSCF0696.jpg) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/DSCF0696.jpg)

Click here (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11694) for gallery of additional images.

H 10" 25.8cm, max d 4" 10cm, foot d 3½" 8.8cm, w 1lb 6oz 626g.   Pontil scar fairly roughly smoothed.

(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/DSCF070346a.jpg)

Three views of the signature from slightly different angles.   There is a tiny mark underneath the third or fourth letter of the signature which could be part of the signature, possibly something like the bottom of a script "g", "j" or "y", or it may be part of the pontil scar finishing and nothing to do with the signature.

Any ideas?

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Martyn K on June 18, 2009, 05:01:49 PM
First letter looks a bit like an E as in Eickholt maybe...?

Just a thought.
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: jonchellycain on June 18, 2009, 05:25:59 PM
ohhh i was thinking the same thing, i had a paperweight ID on here the other day and that was eickholt, cant seem to find much about the signiatures apart from whats on ebay. Most of the signiature seem to be quite differrent as there was lots of different designers signing the work.
Here is the link to the paperweight i listed on here, hopefully it may help

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,27031.0.html

michelle
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: johnphilip on June 18, 2009, 06:35:52 PM
I have a very nice Eickholt signed paperweight your signature is way off , so i dont think it is, also everything screams not Eickholt  to me .Check his Web and you will see what i mean. jp
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: TxSilver on June 18, 2009, 06:43:43 PM
Definitely not Eickholt. The last three letters look like they could be -arc to me. This one looks like it should be easy, but it is very difficult. The letters change, depending on the way one tries to put them together.

Added on a few minutes later -- McEwan?
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: jonchellycain on June 18, 2009, 06:50:22 PM
Hi there
johnphillip do you have the website address as ive been so far unsucessful in finding one the only site ive been able to find is the link below (unless this is his website)
www.phoenixorion.com/phoenixorion/eickholt.htm 
michelle
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: johnphilip on June 19, 2009, 06:05:23 AM
I cant find it now , but it was a couple of years ago i must have found it thru google before he retired in 2008 .jp
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Anne on June 19, 2009, 04:48:36 PM
Quote from: http://www.crystal-balls.com/eickholt.htm
Robert Eickholt has retired and closed the Eickholt Glass Studio as of November 2008.
which probably explains why the site isn't showing up anywhere.  
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Bernard C on June 25, 2009, 09:20:08 AM
A long shot — I've just been reading Roger Dodsworth's essay on Gray-Stan in BGbtW, and wondered whether this mystery signature could be an unusual engraved Gray-Stan signature.

Any views?

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Ohio on June 25, 2009, 03:17:56 PM
As TxSilver stated...that is not Robert Eickholt's signature nor his style/work. Since his Town Street studio was only 15 minutes from me here in Columbus, Ohio, I used to drop in 2-3 times a year & before that studio opened I dropped in to his westside operation back in the late 70s even before he officially became "known" & started signing his pieces. I've never seen an Eickholt's signature that was not clearly legible. Attached is an unsigned large bowl of his that dates around 1975 from the old westside location.   
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Martyn K on June 25, 2009, 03:38:46 PM
Just thought it looked a bit like an E..... :-X
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: bubbles on June 25, 2009, 06:44:17 PM
I see e caewk, but couldn't find anything useful on a google.
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Sue C on June 26, 2009, 01:25:33 PM
Could it be E Clark ? http://www.taongaglass.com/About%20Taonga%20Glass%20Page.htm
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Bernard C on June 26, 2009, 03:21:23 PM
Sue — Brilliant piece of detective work.   I've emailed the artist;  hopefully he'll reply.

Thanks.    :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Bernard C on June 29, 2009, 10:37:17 AM
I'm convinced it's Edward Clarke of Taonga Glass.   See his 2008 sculpture Seahorse Cove (http://www.taongaglass.com/Reef%20Page5.htm).   The body of his seahorses is an identical combed opaque white on clear, and the tooling on the knobbly fins matches the two collars on my vase.

What do you think?

...   and I wonder how one of his vases arrived at a little village hall antiques fair near Milton Keynes?

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Re: Signed vase with white combed and pulled-up decoration
Post by: Bernard C on July 08, 2010, 06:04:32 AM
Apologies — I've mis-spelt Edward Clark in the previous reply.   See About Taonga Glass (http://www.taongaglass.com/AboutTaongaGlass.htm).

It is interesting to compare the white feathering with that of Robert Held Art Glass of Canada, see here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34667.0.html).

Bernard C.  8)