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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Resolved Paperweight Queries => Topic started by: BobKegeles on July 06, 2014, 02:19:13 AM
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Hey all you Brits,
This seems to be a contemporary English glassblower's work, but I'm not familiar enough with smaller independent British glass studios to recognize or decipher the signature.
I can't figure out fist name, last name, or city, but I think I'm reading England as the last word. LOL
Any ideas?
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William Walker, Dorset, England?
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It may be eyes, but to me the signature looks like William Walker, but I stand corrected and apologise if I wrong.
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Perfect. Since I'm not familiar with Walker's work, I couldn't grasp the signature, and Dorset didn't pop into my head. I can see both clearly now, knowing what they are helps. LOL.
Thank you both very much.
Bob
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A truly wonderful artist to have a piece by!
It looks like an orchid inside it.
Have a search for his name here - he has recently sent me some images of work to post , somebody else got to know him and have the most fabulous landscape bowl he has just had made.
Going back a little in time, William Walker worked with Michael Harris at Isle of Wight Studio Glass - it was their work together on Azurene, which won a Design Council Award in '79, (inventing a method of incorporating silver foil onto glass without it reacting).
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My daughter recently bought me home a William Walker Azurene apple minus it stalk from Exeter signed William Walker 83 For Mum 1983