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Lustre Iridescent Blue Gold Glass Paperweight ID Help.ID= IOW Studio

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glassobsessed:
The base colour of Sue's vase is blue and I suspect Anton's candle holder is too, the paperweight is made with clear glass. The base colour will greatly affect how the patches of coloured enamels, silver or gold foil and the trails will eventually appear. It seems Silver Mosaic is fumed as well to create iridescence, this further affects the overall appearance and the colours displayed. I think it is the various techniques used rather than those colours which are important here and the paperweight looks to be spot on.

Sue, take a look at your vase very closely where the base is ground flat, are the various coloured enamels exposed enough right at the edge to see any of them? The trails that are tooled into spirals are apparently clear glass.

chopin-liszt:
Only the applied rim of the vase is blue, the body is a very deep purple, the sort that is supposed to be black. You have to hold it to a very strong light source to find that it is purple.
There are no other colours. The iridesence and the patterns stop at the edge of the base and do not continue around it. It is pretty much just flat and black. With a long, rectangular, gold "30 year anniversary" sticker. Everything on the surface is iridescent. All the swirls and the background. Not the applied rim.
Suzy's pink Mosaic purse vase was white inside.

All things considered, I think we're in agreement, John. It's the technique and the swirls which define it, rather than the specific background colours per se. ;D
This is a Silver Mosaic paperweight.  8)

ahremck:
Just noticed this posting.  I think you have been given a sensible attribution.  The only reason I am commenting is that the general apperance is reasonably close to this paperweight of mine.  It has the square label and is engraved 2001 BM.

After much to and fro it turned out to be design by Timothy Harris for the British Museum.  I was not able to establish if they actually sold them, or whether it was just a design piece.  The colours are very similar to yours I feel.

Ross

chopin-liszt:
It is the "British Museum" design. That was only sold in the isle of Wight's own b&m shop, or in the shop in the British Museum. The museum had asked the studio to create something akin to old Roman glass for their shop.
British Museum doesn't have the spiral swirls which are what define Mosaic.

Anton's page on BM, Ross. :)
http://iowstudioglass.wikidot.com/bm

glassobsessed:
A Mosaic Silver medium cylinder vase (17cm).

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