Topic: What's your Favourite 3 pieces ?

[chopin-liszt]

No flake Peter - the "chocolate" in flakes is a mere brown-coloured confection of fat and sugar. I'm a choccie snob, I'm afraid.
However, back to glass...

Alison Kinnaird storm lantern - pre-'76, from her studio in Edinburgh.
Graham Muir, "Waveform", 2005
Michael Harris Precious Baby Fish. The smallest one known, just 3.75" tall, dated to '68 by Tim and Elizabeth Harris.

[ahremck]

I wonder can we restart this great strand.   So I am going to give it a go.

!.  Jenni Kemarre Martiniello - Aboriginal Fishtrap - 77cms long.  She designs glass and is herself Aboriginal from central Australia - hence the Kemarre which denotes a region like for example Champagne does in France.
2.  I think it is a Bohemian Comport.  I love it because it has over 1200 cuts to make its decoration and ios only about 15 cms tall.
3.  Murano filigree/Zanfirico vine leaf small bowl.  My first ever bit of glass - and still a favourite

Special:  A memorial for my Black Swan - my Anglo-Indian wife Meyance.  She wanted me to get a paperweight - but I thought otherwise   She was the wind beneath my wings.

Ross

[chopin-liszt]

Beautiful and very unusual pieces.
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your own angel, Ross.

[flying free]

A lovely idea for the thread Ross.  I love your swan.  Her face is so serene and she's beautifully crafted.
Your three pieces are so individual and it's made me think about how wide collectors of glass cast their net.  Or it could just be me  I never seem to manage to collect one thing really.  There's always something 'amazing' that I must just have for whatever reason strikes me at the time, regardless of whether it fits in.

I'll have to think over whether I might change any of the three items I posted last

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[flying free]

So, this is an almost impossible task

I've spent days thinking about it (do I take the rarest or the most valuable or the smallest and easiest to carry?) .  I suspect that in reality I would take the smallest and easiest to carry.  However, that aside I've decided I would still take the pate de verre head.  It's quite an amazing piece and I know nothing about the maker so still research interest there.

I would change the other two pieces:
a) Instead I would take a cameo glass egg - again, maker unknown but it's old and precious and beautifully carved.  If you look at it side on it's a clear glass egg within a carved egg so it looks like a caged egg.

b)And a piece I have which is late 1600s - too rare and special not to save it - pic not included.

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[cagney]

 Almost impossible indeed. So I tweeked the criteria a bit. I offer three of my favorite pieces I used to own and would pay good money to have back.

1.Cased roundel engraved. Depicting Columbia with liberty cap, eagle and shield. Typical mid 19th century patriotic iconography. Bohemian for the American market c.1840-1860. Further details can be had on the Corning Museum website as it resides in their collection now.

2. Cut and engraved tumbler. France 1820-1840. One of the best I have seen of this genre

3. A modern piece by master engraver Edmond Suciu on a marked Orrefors blank. Shallow oval bowl  depicting  Native Americans c.mid 1830s. Also marked EDMOND AFTER CARL BODMER. Other examples of his work can be found on his website https://www.edmondartglass.com

[keith]

Thought I'd add my favourites, a Webb cameo vase, a nice piece of Stevens and Williams and a Royal Brierley 'Kyoto' table lamp.

[Ekimp]

Cagney, love the dog in no.2, he looks great - loads of character! It doesn’t look like they used many marks but very effective.

[cagney]

  These tumblers turn up and now and again, Almost always with the flared out top and greyhound. Documented American examples have straight sides and are sort of French as well. It is documented that Thomas Pears enticed some French engravers to emigrate to Pittsburgh and work for Bakewell. It is believed that they are responsible for bringing the pattern? to this country.

 The engraved lamb is kinda nice as well. I swear it is looking at me.

[flying free]

The Mona Lisa of lambs