Topic: Streaky enamelled vase

[flying free]

I don't know if WW pieces had the decoration on the surface of the pieces.

Stuart Strathearn did - it reminds me of that a little as well.

m

[Scott13]

Hi, I'll have a look at Stuart Strathearn.

The only other name that crossed my mind was Norman Stuart Clarke; but only because of his fairly frequent use of black trailing.............

Yet another anon to my collection ?   

[glassobsessed]

Another WW vase to compare with here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39500.msg358799.html#msg358799

Have a really careful look for a signature, they be very hard to spot.

John

[Scott13]

Hi John, thanks for sending the link.

Haven't been able to find any monogram, signature on my vase - just the broken off pontil mark !

I can see what could be a W ( could be my imagination of course ) within the pontil mark of  Dingledodger's piece ?

I've attached the nearest I can get to a close-up of my vase's base - I could be missing something   

Scott

[flying free]

John, op's vase is surface decorated though.  The colour and design is 'on' the glass surface rather than an integral part of the glass.
I've not seen a WW vase like that admittedly on fairly cursory net surfing though.
m

[glassobsessed]

It is always harder going by photos only, having an item in your hands can really help provide those subtle clues. How much the canes and chips used to form the decoration stand proud will depend on how they were further heated and worked, the more marvering and heat the smoother the end result.

I had the opportunity to handle Ben's WW handkerchief vase in that link, beautifully made, very thinly blown and so 'fluid'. The signature was not on the foot but around the base of the vase where the foot was attached.

[flying free]

yes it is difficult ... perhaps I'm not seeing them 'right' but Ben's fluted vase also looks as though it's opalescent in appearance i.e. the colour appears to be the metal, rather than there being bits of glass surface fused on.
Or... are there actually  bits of white glass in the metal picked up from the marver, rather than it being a colour from the pot or produced on cooling as it were?

m

[glassobsessed]

That I don't know m, I would assume a clear gather rolled in coloured powder to give the colour rather than there having been a pot of that pale pinky mauve. Might have to ask Mr Walker himself to be able to answer that question definitively.

[Scott13]

Hi, two dimensional images certainly have their shortcomings.

Anyway here are some random observations which might help to flesh out my original description 

The glass has been thinly blown ( like Ben's piece it's quite delicate) - if tapped it emits a tinny note.

There are a few seeds and the odd elongated bubble in the area just below the rim. There's also an elongated open bubble on the inside surface.
There are a number of striations in the glass - presumably what you'd expect in something that's been hand blown.

I don't think it's opalescent.
I think the white has probably been picked up on the marver.
Where the white ( which has a feathery look  ) has been applied the surface of the glass is slightly rough - hardly discernible.

The pink looks very like the pink found on IOWSG  Pink & blue swirls ( I'm not suggesting any connection- just an observation re the colour ! )

The decoration has definitely been applied to the surface - it hasn't been cased.
If you run your finger over the surface you can feel that it's raised.
The inside is perfectly smooth.

Hope this might help 

Scott