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Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 09, 2006, 07:52:42 PM: Picked this up last weekend hoping I could identify it. Haven't got anywhere with so here it is. Any ideas please? It has a prunt on the bottom with a sort of cog wheel imprint and a light all over irridescence. It's 15.5 cm tall and 6 cm across
(http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/th_IMG_0411.jpg) (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_0411.jpg)(http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/th_IMG_0413.jpg) (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_0413.jpg)
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 13, 2006, 06:46:01 AM: Bump. The colours have been applied to clear glass (I think) by marvering and left textured, although on the inside you can feel where the glass has slumped to cause the ripple pattern.
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Max on June 13, 2006, 06:57:55 AM: I did have a look round a couple of days ago for this, it looks like *another* Tudor Rose emblem to me? I've searched for it, but haven't come up with anything. I thought for a moment it might be Gibraltar glass, but their emblem is a kind of fortress, and it's not Guernsey (lions) either. Stumped I'm afraid! :(

(up early again due to wheezy tickly cough!)
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Frank on June 13, 2006, 06:59:22 AM: Could you try some base shots at an angle please.
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 13, 2006, 06:03:15 PM: How about these? Click to enlarge
(http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/th_IMG_0449.jpg) (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_0449.jpg)(http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/th_IMG_0448.jpg) (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lustrousstone/IMG_0448.jpg)
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: David E on June 13, 2006, 06:07:15 PM: Look more like a 'Sun' motif myself. Does this help?

probably not!
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Frank on June 13, 2006, 07:42:06 PM: Wasn't there an earlier discussion on such a motif being Japanese?
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 14, 2006, 06:34:47 AM: I've looked but the only suitable link I found was for a uranium glass bowl with a square prunt with a rising sun, nothing like mine.
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Glen on June 14, 2006, 08:03:57 AM: The motif reminds me of the Oriental (Japanese) chrysanthemum motif. In its stylised form it can be seen on several Carnival Glass patterns (eg Fenton's Mikado and Northwood's Wishbone).

Glen
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 02, 2006, 09:58:09 AM: Does this cylinder have the coach bolt prunt referred to here

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,3989.0.html

My blue cylinder looks very like Lyndhurst's pink cylinder.
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 20, 2006, 06:50:12 AM: Bump Is this by Dillon Clarke? Ron Wheeler (Artius) has suggested it is
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 20, 2006, 07:56:46 AM: :D :D :D

The two vases are amazingly similar!

I'm afraid I don't know whether Dillon Clarke may have been involved - was he not an early Glasshouse student? Would AdamA know anything?
Title: Blue and pink vase with prunt on base Dillon Clarke?
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 20, 2006, 08:46:51 PM: Dillon Clarke was a Glasshouse student but he's a she :D Here's some of her more recent (relatively) stuff http://www.photostore.org.uk/seMORE.aspx?MID=129

Nothing like mine though

Here is what Ron said
"Now from the first image I would say it was made by a lady called Dillon Clarke who trained under the first deriving force of studio glass in the U.K. Sam Herman (an American ) who set up 'The Glasshouse in Covent garden in the early '70's. He worked alongside Michael Harris who can be acknowledged as the first British founding father of factory production processes in studio glass but of course went to Malta to set up Mdina Glass while Sam got on with it over here. They were both tutors in the glass faculty at the Royal College of Art in the '60's.
Anyway I was an agent for Dillon during her business years and she and a partner set up and ran 'Cambridge Glassmakers' in the U.K.(not to be confused with the American firm of the same name). The only thing I don't recognise is the embossed mark on the prunt and whist I.o.W.Glass also used an embossed prunt it was very distinctive."