Topic: mystery multi coloured mottled vase - any ID help. ID = Adam Aaronson

[orangeglass]

Hi,

Interesting vase but nothing like my usual stuff! I have no idea where to start with this - cannot find anything that resembles it 

11" high, top diameter 3.25", circumference at fattest 21.75" - slightly lop sided, base diameter just over 2.25".

Beautifully ground out pontil mark and base and polished - age wear to base.

Extremely heavy - suspect high lead content.

The rim is cut and polished  (not sure of the exact terminology - sorry) and approx 9mm thick.

It appears to have an inner layer (approx 1.5mm) which is very speckly with small blobs of colour, only a very few small air bubbles. there then appears to be a thick clear casing, on the surface of which the coloured enamels have been applied (you can feel the texture) - this gives a sort of 3D aspect to the glass.

Any ideas much appreciated,
Roberta

[chopin-liszt]

no mark at all?

It does look a bit like some of our very own Adam Aaronson's early work, I've certainly seen a large purple (over some white) vase with very similar textures of enamels in it - sort of cloudy in a powderpuff-y cumulus-stretched a bit at the edges kind of way - practically impossible to describe!

But a way of working the enamels in, in a way I know Adam can produce. I don't know of anybody else who can make it come out this way.

[orangeglass]

Ooh, thought it was older than that somehow, but it does look very much like his effect and colours, just not come across that shape.
Thank you, will ask him!

Roberta

[chopin-liszt]

I'm fairly sure the purple vase I saw was dated '92...

I rather hoped, now we've beeen talking about him, he might pop in. But he's a very busy man, 
not here every day.

[Lustrousstone]

It's almost certainly not lead glass. I don't think studio glass is

[chopin-liszt]

A great deal of Studio Glass is lead crystal, nowadays Christine.
It's softer than other types and much easier to work...

[orangeglass]

Hi,
I've sent him an email to ask him to look if he has the time!
It is so similar in colours and technique to some of his stuff - I just googled images for his glass. Surprisingly I thought it was much older.
Does anyone know why it is so heavy!

Thanks,
Roberta

[aa]

It does look like an early piece of mine, probably between 1988 and 1992. Well spotted, Sue.
;-)
 
Christine, until around 1995, most UK studio glass was lead crystal - almost everyone used Dartington cullet, but that's another story!

[orangeglass]

Ok, typed at the same time - so it probably has a high lead content hence the weight!

[Lustrousstone]

OK, my apologies - waste not want not eh?