Topic: Iconic 1980s Studio Glass Vase/Bowl - Impossible Signature (Part 2)

[horochar]

Adding to my collection of high-end studio glass with impossible signatures is this beauty.  (See my prior posts for Part 1, flying saucer vase).  Look at the quality!  Screams out 1980s, in my opinion.  I'm pulling out my hair trying to decipher the signature: Torysing? Tobysong? Toby Sung? It's just too good to be made by an anonymous hobbyist.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Charles

[ahremck]

Left Field Thought!

In my memory most artists sign the name first and the date next.  I wonder If this is a fashion designer piece that someone has marked for insurance purposes with their own name "Toby Sing" is my guess.

Ross

[chopin-liszt]

I've googled Toby Sing and glass, and I got absolutely nowhere. 
Looking at the work itself, if this piece had been found in the uk, I would have been suggesting Iestyn Davies/ Blowzone as a possible contender... wonder if it might have been somebody who worked with him... or (far more likely) somebody fabulous and antipodean I've not had the pleasure of encountering yet.

[rosieposie]

Mysing is a surname, so could this be T. Mysing?

[flying free]

I read that as Tom Sing
m

[Fuhrman Glass]

Toensing Art Glass, Coon Rapids, MN., USA ?

[horochar]

I'll be darned.  That's it.  Robert (Bob) Toensing.  Makes sense, insofar as I'm here in (freezing) Minnesota.  For the amazing quality of this piece, there is virtually nothing about him on the net.  No gallery representation, no auction history.  No nothing.  Needs to hire a publicist!

[langhaugh]

It looks like a great piece. Also, great to find an attribution for it.
David

[rosieposie]

Oh Charles,  you must be thrilled!!
It is a wonderful piece of Studo Glass and you weren't that far out m,  but wow, Furhman Glass,  what amazing knowledge! 
Hopefully for you Charles,  you will find more of this lovely work as it is local to you. 


Added:  I just saw this link to some more of his work  and thought you might like to see it:

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5517702

[Fuhrman Glass]

I think he also has made glass working tools as my favorite jacks have his name stamped on them. I got them from a friend of mine many years ago and guess he got them from him.