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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Pip on April 24, 2006, 04:36:55 PM
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On a separate note - has anyone here ever heard of Annette Meech? My husband (at the same time as he bought this lovely pink AA piece) also bought a goblet that initially he thought might be Mdina but on close inspection it has a signature underneath which says Annette Meech 1973. I managed to locate her current glassworks in Sivigny in France and it turns out the goblet was one of the first items she made on graduation from the Royal College of Art and she told me the value was around £75 - she made very few of them. Aren't I lucky to have a husband with such a superb eye for glass and a real nose for a bargain... I'll post the link in a sec - can't find the picture ....
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http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1969.0.html
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I've some 'Apollo' glasses by her for Ravenhead.
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here's the goblet - Annette told me that the mottled silvery brown effect was made by throwing silver nitrate(?) at it (silver something anyway - my memory isn't what it was!) - hubby bought it from Oxfam for £5.
http://i3.tinypic.com/wbdrsz.jpg
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:D :shock: :mrgreen:
Lovely! I'm very jealous!
I have a very strange piece by her, dated '71. I don't care what anybody else says, it's a mushroom shape. It is not a dildo.
:cry: Still no camera!
I had Apollo glasses back in the late '70's. It's really hard to find big ones now, even the wee ones are fairly rare.
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LOL - I'm dying to see your Annette Meech dildo - sorry I mean MUSHROOM!!! Was just thinking though, if it's dated 1971 that might be one of her graduation pieces from the RCofA perhaps? Or possibly one of her very first pieces from the Glasshouse in Covent Garden ....
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:shock::lol::shock:
I do hope so! The tall body is a lovely blue, with texture within the colour, there is a top-knot wrapped around thickly at the top, tapering in a spiral down the body. The tapering top-knot is yellowy-browny irridesent-y.
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Heard of Annette Meech, German born in 1948, in Cologne, and moved to the UK? Of course, one of the greatest British Glass Artists, male or female, who set up the Covent Garden glass house in London for about 20 years, early 1970's to early 1998? A graduate of the Royal College of Art and contemporary to Christopher Williams, Norman Stuart Clarke, etc she moved to France circa 2006, when i last spoke to her.
Here is what the 20th century Glass forum says of her,
"Annette Meech
Post by Pip on March 24th 2009, 9:32 am
Annette Meech graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1972 and started her working life at the Old Glasshouse in Covent Garden, London. This is a very early piece of Annette's work from that period - signed 'Annette Meech 1973' made just the year after she graduated. The brown/milky effect to this goblet was created using silver chloride. Annette Meech is particularly well-known for designing the iconic 'Apollo' and other glassware for Ravenhead. In 1999 she moved her glassworks to France (Sivignon) where she continues to produce beautiful hand made art glass.
Her address is
Address: Le Bourg, 71220 Sivignon, France
Phone: +33 3 85 59 64 25
I hope this helps?
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Got pics of two goblets from '72. I own the red one, not the other.
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Heard if Annette Meech, German born in 1948, in Cologne, and moved to the UK? Of course, one of the greatest British Glass Artists, male or female, who set up the Covent Garden glass house in London for about 20 years, early 1970's to early 1998? A graduate of the Royal College of Art and contemporary to Christopher Williams, Norman Stuart Clarke, etc she moved to France circa 2006, when i last spoke to her.
Here is what the 20th century Glass forum says of her,
"Annette Meech
Post by Pip on March 24th 2009, 9:32 am
Annette Meech graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1972 and started her working life at the Old Glasshouse in Covent Garden, London. This is a very early piece of Annette's work from that period - signed 'Annette Meech 1973' made just the year after she graduated. The brown/milky effect to this goblet was created using silver chloride. Annette Meech is particularly well-known for designing the iconic 'Apollo' and other glassware for Ravenhead. In 1999 she moved her glassworks to France (Sivignon) where she continues to produce beautiful hand made art glass.
Her address is
Address: Le Bourg, 71220 Sivignon, France
Phone: +33 3 85 59 64 25
I hope this helps?
May I add that I have just spoken to her and Christopher Williams, 12-03-2020- who tell me they retired as glass makers in 2017, but are enjoying a well earned retirement in Burgundy. They occasionally get enquiries about their work, but sadly no longer produce anymore!
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I have admired her work from the early '70s. I went to Boots and spent £3.45 on a set of 6 trendy Apollos for my very first flat on my own. 8) 8) 8)
Then I found my mushroom, and an unsigned goblet, and the red signed one.
And I have since, been re-collecting Apollos to replace the ones that got broken.
I reckon she really deserves to retire by now. ;D
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I still use my Apollos every day - we have the big ones, though only 5 now as one met an unfortunate accident. :'(
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On a separate note - has anyone here ever heard of Annette Meech? My husband (at the same time as he bought this lovely pink AA piece) also bought a goblet that initially he thought might be Mdina but on close inspection it has a signature underneath which says Annette Meech 1973. I managed to locate her current glassworks in Sivigny in France and it turns out the goblet was one of the first items she made on graduation from the Royal College of Art and she told me the value was around £75 - she made very few of them. Aren't I lucky to have a husband with such a superb eye for glass and a real nose for a bargain... I'll post the link in a sec - can't find the picture ....
Just found this on the Internet...
"It was in 1971, when I was a glass student at the Royal College of Art that I first started to work the odd weekend at The Glasshouse.
When I graduated a year later I was fortunate to have the opportunity to continue working with glass at The Glasshouse. There were no other studios like this set up in the country, The Glasshouse provided a simple workshop at a time when the studio glass movement was in its infancy and our skills as glassmakers were very basic.
It was not until we took the decision to move from Neal Street to Long Acre in 1975 that The Glasshouse needed to function not only as a creative studio, but also as a serious business. We tried to put everything in place to encourage this. The studio was well equipped and efficient and we produced whatever we wished. (remuneration was based on sales!).
Creating one off pieces and developing functional objects for production both held equal importance. During my 26 years at The Glasshouse in London I was able to do this. I enjoyed the challenges of making the glass, running the business and working with the people who helped achieve its success.
In 1999 Christopher Williams and I set up ë Glasshouse de Sivignoní in France, aided by Peter Durkin, our last assistant in London. Although on a smaller scale, the spirit of The Glasshouse lives on. We have a well-equipped country workshop with one of David Taylorís furnaces. We continue to take on assistants from local colleges, some of whom will, hopefully, become the next generation of French glassmakers."
Annette & christopher, retired in 2017 and closed their studio , and the website hs been closed down. As far as I know she was a odern day femail pioneer in glas making, following in the footsteps of Mrs Elizabeth Graydon-Stannus between 1922 and 1936. It is usually clearly marked "Gray Stann".