Topic: Need Assistance with Artist Identification

[Bill Vitez]

I have a small glass vase which is one of my favorite pieces and have had great difficulty identifying the artist from the very simple signature which seems to read "CH2 72" or "CHZ 72" (I surmised that the "72" is the date). I've attached a picture of the piece in profile which does not show the 5/8" round opening at the top and a picture of the signature which is on the surface just above the flat bottom. The picture does not do this piece justice and the background color doesn't show too well but it is a deep ruby red and the piece is heavy. It is approximately 3.5 inches Tall and 3.5 inches Wide. This is well executed and has to be the work of someone recognized.

[chopin-liszt]

Gorgeous beast! Probably quite an early piece of American Studio glass, (given you are in the states!).
 The decor is achieved with silver chloride - much used in early studio glass.

It might be very hard to track down the artist. Many only worked in glass for a short while, then moved on to something else.
I have a glorious piece of work by Jim Megura, whose signature was id'd by oldglassman for me here - Jim is a personal friend of his and now sells and writes about ancient glasses and bottles - I've even met him at fairs over here and was able to thank him for it personally.

I'm mentioning this, in the hope that Peter (oldglassman) might see it and show it to Jim, who might be able to help!

[oldglassman]

HI ,
              Jim has been asked the question , reply will be posted when received.

   cheers ,
                      Peter.

[chopin-liszt]

Thanks for replying, Peter.

I'm going to use this as an excuse to post a pic of Jim's fabulous work. 
It's one of my very, very favourite pieces of glass, it was love at first sight - it drew me from across the room. I had to open it up at an airport customs - so I got a chance to show it off to all the customs officers and belther glass at them. They were mightily impressed and interested!

[Bill Vitez]

 Thank you chopin-liszt and Peter (AKA oldglassman).

Thanks for posting he image of Jim's work. I'm envious.

Best Regards,
Bill

[oldglassman]

HI ,
          Jim has had a look and is unable to supply a name , he does not recognize the signature nor the piece which he suggests is  fairly basic and possible even student work .

cheers ,
               Peter.

[chopin-liszt]

It was worth a shot, please convey my grateful thanks to Jim. 

  I have some fabulous student pieces... Pauline Solven, Annette Meech, Dillon Clarke, Wayne Filan...

[Bill Vitez]

Thank you all for your efforts to identify the artist. As I said before this is one of my favorite pieces but it really doesn't matter if it is from an unknown artist. I would just have liked to known who the artist was and have seen his/her other works.
Talking about student pieces. I recently found a Paula Bartron dated 1970 and have attached photos.

[Greg.]

Recently stumbled across this piece in the attached link and wondered if it possibly had any connection to the piece at the beginning of this thread.  Appreciate the signing is different, although the use of silver chloride looked to possibly have some similarities. The one in the link I gather is signed by Bob Parr.

http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/item.fcgi?itemKey=3923471935

[antiquerose123]

I am not finding anything in Glass..............??................the only CHS I find is in Pottery (Carl Harry Stalhane) in Sweden.......and this is not pottery.  So will try to hunt some more....??