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Title: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: flying free on June 05, 2011, 02:46:24 PM

I found these recently - but have not been able to find anything remotely like them.  I like them (they are faces after all  ;D) but I can't decide whether or not they are mass produced or not.
The gold paint on the heavily coloured one looks like someone took a paintbrush to it with that gold paint you get in jars (and that it may well come off with a touch of acetone ::)).  The yellow splodges are in the glass.  The other seems to have had some gold leaf applied to it after making.  They both look to have come from the same mould.  The glass doesn't really give me that 'recycled' feel but on one is very dark green (bottle?) glass and on the other is a sagey green glass.
They measure 12cm long x 8.5cm wide and about 5 at the deepest.
Anyone?
thanks in advance
m :sun:

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: flying free on June 05, 2011, 06:21:28 PM

close up of one
m

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: flying free on June 14, 2011, 09:44:08 PM

anyone?  any thoughts on how they were made, how easy it would be to make them even?  :sun:
I did find a studio in the States called Blowfish who do a similar idea with faces and gold, but their faces are all opaque clear glass.
Ideas would be good  :)  Many thanks
m

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: Ivo on June 14, 2011, 10:06:59 PM

Bertil Vallien's "drowned children" from Kosta http://www.swedishartglass.com/shop/viewitem.asp?ID=199 jump to mind. These were (or are) hugely succesful and iconic and would have generated a few followers...

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: flying free on June 14, 2011, 10:36:49 PM

thanks Ivo  :)  I've just had an inspiring trawl through some wonderful glass and mounts - I had wondered if they were meant to be mounted somehow.  In fact I'm kicking myself as there were a set of three.  The first one being completely plain, the second being the one with scarce decoration and the last being the one most decorated, now I think about it.
I left the first one because it had some damage  :thud:  Now I'm wishing I'd bought all three  ::)  I will find a way to display them together as a pair somehow.
m

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 15, 2011, 10:36:34 AM

If it's any help, my first thought on seeing these was they should be closely related to Bertil Vallien's "Brains" series.
(I want a Brain. Preferrably a Janus one - the type on a flying wedge shape..... my life is not complete without one.)

Title: Re: where did these faces originate? tourist ware or cast glass specials?
Post by: flying free on June 15, 2011, 03:04:51 PM

Sue thanks.  I'd have been delighted if they were BV Brains.  But I'm still delighted with them even though they aren't.  I would have wanted a brain ....but now I have two heads (despite where they are from) I am happy  ;D  I'm going to investigate finding someone locally to make a stand for them.  I'm also going to go back to the lady I bought them from and hope she's still around to get the other one if possible.
thanks all for your thoughts and input - much appreciated. :sun:
m