Topic: Studio vase with tricky signature

[glassobsessed]

A crizzled blue vase with cream and burgundy pulled decoration. The applied foot has a snapped of pontil mark that has been fire polished with a signature (of sorts) that kind of wraps around it and what may be a date of 77 (or upside down LL). The pontil mark is only about 1.5cm in diameter so the sig is teeny tiny.

The vase is 16cm tall and feels quite 'weighty'. I had wondered if the signature started with Goss (Peter) but there does not appear to be a second S.

[glassobsessed]

And the signature.

Any ideas?

John

[brewster]

Not Peter Goss. It looks nothing like his work and definitely not his signature. See several examples of both here:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,42578.msg236766.html#msg236766

Trevor

[glassobsessed]

Thanks Trevor for confirming that, can't say I was ever convinced that first character was a G, perhaps more likely an S.

It looks something like SoSQ?ARB but that means nothing to me.

[Lustrousstone]

Could it be a Swansea postcode SA5... ?

[glassobsessed]

I hope not! Too many characters....