Topic: ID Request: Goblet - web design in white/blue lilac.

[misha]

Thoughts on who may have made this one. please.

Far size goblet with web pattern bowl.

Foot is on the thick heavy side I thought, slightly larger diameter than bowl.

Flame polished pontil scar.

Bowl appears to be cased.
The web pattern can be felt on inside but not outside. It's apparent 'in hand' that there is a clear layer over coloured but too difficult to photograph.

Sorry to find, no engraving on this piece [bowl nor foot].

Colours and transition between reminds me of a Robert Gatt conical bowl I have here, but that has no web pattern.
If no ID, I may take to his gallery next time we visit Warrnambool.

Are there any Aus. [or for that matter Internat.] artists known for this web pattern work?

Height: 150mm
Bowl Diameter: 80mm [at rim]
Foot Diameter: 88mm
Capacity: 400ml

[chopin-liszt]

It's not desperately unlike a scarce design produced by Isle of Wight Studio Glass called "Woodland Birch".
(Images do appear on an internet image search, but I can't isolate a single image from them to post a link.)
But it's not really an IoWSG shape. 

[misha]

Hi Sue,
Had an image search on that. I see what you mean, but different in that the webbing seems to have been applied to a clear bowl during initial forming and then cased in clear.  One can see through the 'web', best seen in top view image titled: UNK Goblet d.jpg

Found this using 'spiderweb' in search.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Murano-or-Blenko-Art-Glass-Spiderweb-Vase-AMAZING-/301947763072?hash=item464d7d3980:g:WpQAAOSwYmZXKT9i

Perhaps a China-Murano made piece? 

Is there a common 'glass' term for this type of design / pattern / decoration?

[glassobsessed]

Not Woodland, that is surface decoration, less regular and with 'twisted' sections - example below.

Bertil Vallien used a similar repeating effect in several designs such as:
http://media.aletorpantik.se/Bilder/Boda.%20Bertil%20Vallien.%20Vas%20H%2012,5%20cm.%20Sig.%20Boda%20Vallien%2043321.%201.jpg

http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2015/11/29/8/3/3/83382a4e-96cb-11e5-945c-56cfbd6a755e.jpg

but it does not really look right for BV. It looks like the web or cage could be created by laying overlapping canes on the marver and picking them up with a gather, probably a technique from Murano.

John

Try searching with the term losanghe  (diamond).

[chopin-liszt]

I've had experimental Woodland Birch jugs - three of them but I haven't got images and I sold them.
They were much more like Misha's beast and a lot less like the official range.
One was a pale pink and white, another a pale blue and white.(I can't remember the other, perhaps both pink and blue and white?)

It was an expensive (time consuming) range to make and got dropped quite quickly as it wasn't commercial enough.