Topic: Need help Identifying Beautiful Amethyst Studio Art Glass Hanging Pendant

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If someone could please help ID this, I would be much obliged! 

I snagged this from a relative that found this for me at an Estate Auction in Kansas City a couple of years ago.  It is 11 1/2 " (29cm) long, the widest diameter is 6" (15.2cm), it is 2 1/2" (6.4cm) across the opening, and the opening is 1 1/8" (2.8cm) in diameter.  It a pretty thick amethyst glass and weights 3 and 1/2lbs.  I do believe it was made to be a hanging pendant light fixture.  It has a crossing pattern of applied amethyst stung glass from the tip that extends 6" (15.2cm) toward the thicker part of the Art Glass.  From the point that the applied glass is strung around the pendant to the very point it meets the base or neck opening it has a beautiful array of long pink, teal, and mauve murrines.  Some of them laid across the pendant and some cut and short and placed kind of like millefiori (just look at the photos, that's the best way that I could describe it).  It has much more white, pink, gray, and rust glass formed in it.  There are a couple of places where it looks like the artist added triangle-shaped (foil?) that really shimmers when light hits them.  Kind of reminds me of Australian Opals!  Where there were empty areas the artist added a grayish pink mottling, that runs all the way down to the neck.  The neck is made of, what seems to be, 2 solid black metal washers, one thin one and one almost twice as thick at the neck opening.  In between them is an amethyst ring of glass with small granular glass bits applied to the outside.

Wow, I am whipped just trying to describe it, but I want to give everyone that thinks they can help me a good once over, as the piece has A LOT going on!  Sorry if I became long-winded!  This is one of my favorite Art Glass Studio pieces and I plan on turning it into a functioning drop-pendant light fixture, to put in my Home Theater Area that I hope to have built, or have a lot of help building!  It's definitely one-of-a-kind (in my eyes, anyway!)

If anyone has the faintest clue who made this, (as it is signed) or can give me any info that might help, don't hesitate to reply with your comments............ :fwr: :fwr: :fwr: 

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