Topic: Anybody know anything about a W.A Hunting?

[chopin-liszt]

 :hi:
I've been looking at a picture of a vase in Judith Miller's "20th-Century Glass". It's the small image on the inside leaf of the cover, and in a slightly bigger picture on p.10. It is described as a "Large tapering vase", 1985, by W.A. Hunting, in the introduction bit on Murano styles.
It is referenced to/owned by somebody in Germany.

The colours and shape are completely different to my neighbours bit, but it is layers of colours with trails and complex murrines. The "feeling" from it is very similar.
There is no more info about this artist at all in the book, and I can't find anything on internet searches or on the Great-glass website.

Does anybody here know anything?
Is this artist American or Eurpoean or Australian - or from somewhere else?

I'd love to find out a bit more about h/im/er.
My lovely next-door neighbours have just bought themselves a vase from a local antique centre - I'd seen it and it had me very intrigued, but I wasn't sure it wasn't good contemporary Chinese - I wasn't sure it wasn't either. :spls: and it was a little too expensive for me to buy for just "being intrigued".

However, it bears a lot of things in common with the Hunting vase in the book, I do rather suspect it's a bit of a bobby-dazzler, and I'd love to be able to tell them something about it.
It is their first piece of Art Glass - they had clubbed together to buy it for each other as their anniversary. present. :love:

[jomo99]

 Hi Sue,

             Not sure if this is the one you are looking for, Wes Hunting owns Hunting Studio Glass!! see here:

                  http://www.weshuntingstudio.com/about.html

                  http://www.weshuntingstudio.com/colorfield.html

                   Warmest Wishes,

                      John

[chopin-liszt]

 :rah:
He is certainly the chap I was looking for, thank-you so much, John!

I should probably get pics of my neighbour's vase, put them here and see what others think.
That is absolutley glorious glass, I'm dribbling all over the keyboard.
I'm not sure my neighbour's bit is quite as complex - but it is gorgeous, whether it's this chap or not.

[jomo99]

  Sue,Glad I could Help, I'm a fan of Wes Huntings work, so please do get some piccies of your neighbours vase, If its anything like the other pieces Wes turns out it'll be stunning, I've only seen two other examples of his work 'in the flesh'  and they made me DROOL!! So I do look forward to seeing the Vase.

                                 Warmest Wishes

                                      John

[chopin-liszt]

Batteries charging, I'll see if they're in shortly.  :thup:

[chopin-liszt]

Caught them. Got some pics.

The base is polished flat, but does show some small signs of wear. It doesn't feel Chinese, it's really well balanced, there isn't any greasy feel either. Given it's had time to percolate into the secondary market, and the wear, I don't think the Chinese have been making stuff as good as this for nearly long enough.
(I didn't go as far as biting or licking it. Not in company.  :pb:)

I think it's something good. No marks.

[chopin-liszt]

couple more.

The colours in this vase are the same as the one in the Miller book, but reversed (inside-out). It is full of "Nazeing-type" bubbles, inside the yellow and the blue enamel cloudy bits.

[Carolyn Preston]

That is a seriously FUN vase.  :chky: :chky: :chky:

Carolyn

[jomo99]

   HHHMMM!! Not quite sure if this IS one of Wes Huntings pieces, but to be fair I've only ever seen two 'in the flesh' when I was in USA back in 2003! I think the best thing to do would be to e-mail him some images and see what he says!!!

                  Warmest Wishes

                        John

[chopin-liszt]

Thanks, John.

I can see clearly the pieces on the website are far more complex, this is much more like the piece in Judith Miller's book - that's dated '85. Twenty-five years is plenty time to improve his (already fairly awesome) skills from that level.

I do think the way ahead would be to write and ask, but I prefer to get some opinions - such as yours  :thup: before going ahead with that - I wouldn't want to insult him.