Topic: Think I'm obsessed with flame pontil marks

[chopin-liszt]

The lid seems to sit very deeply inside the base.... could it possibly just be a vase with a bowl on top - which just happens to look as if it's something proper when they're put together?

This prunty stuff is getting complicated.
It would be a very good idea to try to gather together as many as can be found into a proper reference source.

[glassobsessed]

Sorry Ivo, that one is new to me.

Sue, agreed, gobbledygook.......

Nemmie, they used their logo - the flame mark on at least three labels at different times (not including Kerry examples): http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=536&page=2

John

[Cathy B]

Sorry for :hj:, but about the quotes - Perhaps they make more sense in the context of the original novels or poetry? Ben Okri is a novelist, and Hugh McDiarmid, Khalil Ghibran etc were poets.

[chopin-liszt]

Hugh McDairmid and Kahil Gibran do make sense quite often, I'm familiar with their work Cathy- it's the anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, meaningless, word-strings that drive me nuts.
(And the fact that folk are mislead into thinking it's somehow "deep" or "soulful" - it's not, it's just (at best) ambiguous or amtriguous......or amhexagous!)

Anyhoo - here's a new prunt mark.

Allister Malcom has one now - although he also signs his work clearly.
Here's his prunt - and the piece it's on.

[rosieposie]

ambiguous or amtriguous......or amhexagous!)

I'd love to hear that in a Scottish accent Sue!! :wsh:

[chopin-liszt]

ok, Rosie, your wish is my command, it would be "amtrrrrrriguous". I roll my rs.
(where's the "mooning" emoticon?  :usd: :usd:)

[rosieposie]

Thank you Sue  :sc: .......and your very lovely plate is:

'Passing lichen strewn rocks, reflecting pale Winter sunrise on our path to peace and tranquility'.  :sun:

I wonder if this is the same artist?

http://www.tooveys.com/lots.asp?WEBLOTID=171506&LOTID=1603

[chopin-liszt]

Good grief, Rosie, no, no, no!  :thud:

My fabby, fabby, glistening golden and green fish scaley plate is by contemporary artist and all round lovely guy, Allister Malcolm, from his new Mermaid range.  :rah:

http://www.allistermalcolm.com/mermaidP.htm

(I've got a blue scent bottle in this range too - currently residing with Christine, though)

He is currently working in residence at Broadfield House, and is often found at the big Fairs - Cambridge and the National - I found him at Cambridge when contemporary artists first started featuring there. I saw a Platinum vase and had to have it. I think it must have been one of his quite early ones. I've been collecting his work since then - he even made wine goblets and a claret jug especially for me.

[rosieposie]

Well I hope you liked 'my interpretation' of your lovely plate....

We met Allister at the Cambridge Glass Fair last Sunday week, he is a lovely man, with a wicked sense of humour.
We both sat and watched him make one of his lovely Contour vases. John was enthralled by it all, and stayed on to watch other pieces being made, it kept him out of my hair so I could wander around the glass fair without him saying 'Have you finished yet' and now he says he wants to build a furnace!!

[chopin-liszt]

I'm so glad you met him - and you obviously had a chance to see his work!
He's so full of new ideas, never disappoints - I think he's just wonderful - I really look forward to seeing him - and what he's just been up to, glass-wise!

(and he doesn't make me go too teenybopperish/goldfishy, well, not any more. He's just so down-to earth and enthusiastic.)

I did/do like your description - but not for the plate, which is fishy. It takes me back to when I was well enough to go hillwalking with Michael. I miss it.  :cry: