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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: mhgcgolfclub on June 07, 2010, 06:36:07 PM
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Please help ID the glass artist who made this huge glass sculpture, there is a signature near to the base but I cannot read it clearly.
The item would have been made in 2 pieces, height approx 20" and weighs between 25/30kg.
The piece is at least 15 yearss old and I am sure it must have been made by a top glass artist
Thanks Roy
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Wow, that is stunning... It's a beautiful sculpture! [Now me humming the Barenaked Ladies' If I had a Million Dollars...]
Lucky, lucky man!
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Wow! It looks like a glass version of the Moai statues on Easter Island...
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Guessing here -- looks like MAYBE:
Lombardo Ronni, or Rossi....?????......I am not sure what the name is, but BEAUTIFUL.... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Thanks
Anne I agree with you , I know he looked familiar
ps I am also :mrgreen: as he does not belong to me, he lives in a private house at the Golf Club where I work, there is some more to tell but will have to leave it to tomorrow
Thanks Roy
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That is wonderful - quite stunning. No idea of glass artist but first name looks to me like Rowland, I've never seen anything so Gaudier-Brzeska like in glass, Easter Islands and Italian Futurists rolled into one. Thanks steph.
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Try Loredano Rosin looks typical and signature looks right if so quite big bucks . . :sleep: :sleep: Will look for more when i wake up just sleep walking .jp
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If you have a look at the sig on the 4th picture of this Loredano Rosin piece, it looks like a good fit to me....
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6517143
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He worked and taught a lot in the USA with brother Dino and other famous names , so have a look at ebay USA as well .JP
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Signatures match, so I think you're right guys! How exciting!
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I wont say i told you so then :cry: ;D ;) :'( i i will just go and eat worms. :pb: I was so sad to hear about the tragedy on your patch Anne , still cant take it in . jp :kissy: :kissy: :kissy:
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Awwww JP, don't sulk! :kissy: And thank you for your kind words re last weeks' events.
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Thank you JP for the ID and it is exciting Anne.
The bad news is that the piece was in mint condition until it had an accident last year in which he sustained a broken neck and head injury.
The story for this piece is that it belongs to a couple who live next too are workshops at the golf club. Last year he told me that he had a piece of Murano glass that had had an accident and needed to be glued back together, I just thought it was going to be a normal piece of Murano, when he asked me yesterday to have a looked I thought this is no normal piece of Murano, this is a serious piece of glass by a serious person, they had not noticed it was signed.
Last year the lady decided to move the sculpture onto a small round table by the front door by the boots and shoes, weighing about 30kg the table was not strong enough and they woke in the middle of the night to find it had broke the table and fallen 2 feet onto a slate floor and now in 2 pieces, I think it can be repaired and put back together by an expert, when made the head and body were fitted together with a glass rod with a steel collar and glued. If you look at the 2nd picture of the head you can see he has quite a nasty head injury but no missing glass, and a small chip too the side of his nose, so considering his fall I think it could have been a lot worse.
The lady has owned him for 15 to 20 years, she worked for Pearl and Dean advertising and use to organise galleries and displays for artists in 5 star hotels in London, besides this sculpture there were 2 or 3 others at least one being similar, I do not know for what reasons they became the property of Pearl and Dean and were at some point given to various members of the staff. Although they would have known they were top quality items I am sure they were not aware of the value
Roy
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That is a fabulous piece of glass..... The damage makes me want to cry......