Topic: dartington sharon wine glasses BUT etched signed and numbered any ideas??

[jonchellycain]

Thanks for that Nigel, I know what you mean about the last penny i often sell to dealers and as long as i make my pennies am happy. The problem with these glasses is even guessing a value is completly out of my brain power.
I will certainly be bringing the glasses to the fair... one problem... i dont know what you look like or your stall, i said on the GMB cafe thread about the fair i think we should all make our own GMB badges with our user names on that way i will know who everybody is
Im having a valuation done by Bonhams on wed so will let everybody know what they say although i think it may well be a bit of a guess on there part too as finding any documented evidence of the glasses appears to be quite hard, so finding any which have been sold maybe almost impossible
Michelle

[nigel benson]

Hi Michelle,

Photo of me on Cambridge Glass Fair site under the Exhibitor Interview archives:

http://www.cambridgeglassfair.com/interviewarchive/int-nigel-benson.htm

I'm on the wall at the far end of the main hall, usually, Stand 11.

Often folks have made up GMB badges in the past so that they can be identified, so that's not such a bad idea.

I look forward to hearing about the result of your visit to Bonhams.

BTB, it might be an idea to contact the RA again and ask if they have any records about the prices asked for the glasses at the time - even though it was 28 years ago, it could be helpful. It might have been a sort of open lottery/auction whereby buyers donated a minimum price, with the hope that they gave more, which would make things more arkward!! (That scenario just flitted through my mind, so I threw caution to the wind and suggested it!) It would give a touch-stone if they could let you know.


Cheers, Nigel

PS. Take the hat off and I look a tad less hairy on top :huh:

[Max]

I saw a glass vase by a different RA member on ebay about...umm...18 months ago.  Can't remember the artist, but it had a fired-on motif of a stylised bird on it.  It was signed by the RA member underneath.  I don't think it made an awful lot of money in the end, although I remember wondering whether to buy it as it was signed by someone quite well known.   

[aa]

I saw a glass vase by a different RA member on ebay about...umm...18 months ago.  Can't remember the artist, but it had a fired-on motif of a stylised bird on it.  It was signed by the RA member underneath.  I don't think it made an awful lot of money in the end, although I remember wondering whether to buy it as it was signed by someone quite well known.  

Was it a pink vase and by Craigie Aitchison? with a canary?

[Max]

 :hiclp:  That's the one Adam!  I did have a look through Google but didn't manage to find it!  Come on, fess up, how'd you do it?   :huh: :huh:

Edit:  Not sure the vase was pink though...although not sure.  The name's right though. 

[jonchellycain]

Ok the guy at Bonhams had no idea, and just said they would be best in a specialist glass auction or maybe even ebay as you have a wider market. Unfortunitly he was a general valuer and wasnt really hot on glass. He said that Hermes is a very popular artist and quite well known/collected and that her work generally made good prices.
So we are kind of no further ahead at the moment.
I sent The Royal Academy another email a few weeks back asking if they had anymore detailed information on the glasses so hopefully i should hear back from them.
michelle

[aa]

:hiclp:  That's the one Adam!   Come on, fess up, how'd you do it?   :huh: :huh:
Edit:  Not sure the vase was pink though...although not sure.  The name's right though. 

Ahem...the thing is I have done some work from time to time with museum shops such as the RA, BM, National Gallery etc in the UK and other noted museum shops in the US, including the Museum of Art and Design, MOMA, Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt among others and the vase that Max referred to was a small edition that was commissioned by the Royal Academy.  I worked with Craigie Aitchison to produce those vases, which were a sort of pink/ruby with an applied transfer of a yellow canary on a branch.
 

In fact visitors to the British Museum this autumn http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/moctezuma.aspx may find some vases and paperweights that I have recently made. These are not yet online but the paperweights that I made earlier this year for the Shah Abbas exhibition can be seen here on this amazingly long link!!

http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&template=wz_locayta&pageno=1&perpage=20&collate=ivtype%3Acat%3Apdxtpricecat%3Apdxtexhibition%3Apdxteventtype%3Apdxtmemtype%3Apdxttheme%3Apdxtgiftrcpnt%3Apdxtworldculture%3Apdxtarttheme%3Apdxtbooksubject%3Apdxtjewellmaterial%3Apdxtornamenttheme%3Apdxtpostcardtheme%3Apdxtstationerytype%3Apdxttoystype%3Apdxttypebook%3Apdxttypeca%3Apdxttypedvd%3Apdxttypefood%3Apdxttypejewellery%3Apdxttypekh%3Apdxttypeornmet%3Apdxtobjecttype%3Apdxtobjectartists%3Apdxtcountry%3Apdxtdate&refine_sort_alph=&setsortorder=price%2Cname&setsortprice=descending&setsortname=descending&setsortrelease=ascending&fieldrtype=type&termtextrtype=invt&typertype=exact&fieldcatrestrict=xancestorid&termtextcatrestrict=shop&typecatrestrict=exact&typekeywordsearch=keyword&termtextkeywordsearch=adam+aaronson&searchsubmit=Search