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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: flying free on August 28, 2011, 01:26:02 PM
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Looking for some info on this glassmaker please. I bought a very nice piece of glass signed by him but can't find any info at the mo.
Many thanks
m
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Images of said vase...I love this vase...it reminds me of a Michael Harris Fish vase slightly. Dated Nov 74, so possibly been influenced by.
Blown from the top and has a cut and polished rim. The 'straps' are on both side and go under the base across the middle of the base.
Colouring and inclusions effect are gorgeous.
About 6 1/2" wide (16cm) by 5 1/4" tall (13m)
m
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It strikes me it's very sophisticated for '74 - I think I'd be looking to america or the antipodes to start with.
I've gone through the index of my "American Studio Glass 1960-1990" but his name isn't there - this doesn't mean it's not in the book - I've already discovered Wayne Filan is written about in the main text, but he's not in the index.
Why do so many great books have lousy indices???? :grrr:
I find the vase slightly sinister! It reminds me of trussed up mummies or something a bit insecty (lousy!) under a microscope.
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you are way ahead of me Sue in the collecting stakes ..and thank you for looking - I don't have that book. The guy I bought it from said America had been suggested, so I was thinking that's a possible and of course, the very word Hobart made me think Australia, Herman studio/student, but I've not managed to unearth anything so far.
Also the signature is really nicely done, I have to say possibly one of the best engraved sigs I've seen (obviously not including M.Harris ;D )
m
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lol, I've just seen your descriptor of my beautiful vase :24: very well written but not at all true in the flesh... ;D
I'm now looking at it and seeing a headless armless woman with a shawl over her shoulders :help:
m
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A (-n evil) thought I had when I saw the signature was that it looks very like "normal" legible writing - and with the detail of the day being included, could it possibly have been marked, in a possessive way by the first person who bought it?
This is not unknown - my Mdina tricorn cobalt charger was clearly :24: signed "R B Joslin, London, 1971".
These scratchings have been professionally removed.
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done by a dentist with a diamond point drill ;D
well, I don't know enough about sig engraving (dremel, diamond point or whatever it may be) to know, but I think it's done properly whoever did it. It's not a scratched on thing, pretty small, neat and placed well sort of thing.
'nother closer pic of sig. Your thoughts? Am I wrong?
m
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Maybe it's the open round letters which made me think it's just a bit child-like?????
It just doesn't look like an "official pawmark".
(it evoked the same feeling in me as reading a child-like address, finished with; Europe, Planet Earth, The Solar System, The Universe....")
I may well be completely wrong!
It is, however, a very sophisticed piece for '74 - perhaps it's the mismatch between the sophistication of the piece and the unsophisticated appearance of the signature which is messing with my thinking - which is all just gut stuff.
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You could be right. Another thought I had was I was wondering if it was a degree piece? hence the detail in the date? p.s. my photo is hugely enlarged which may be what is making it look so 'round'. I shall do a pic of the base hopefully showing the sig placement.
m
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That certainly is another possibility :hiclp: Good thinking - it certainly would be a good reason for the day to be mentioned - an emerging artist who perhaps hasn't finalised his "pawmark design".
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It's lovely isn't it M, I cuddled it before putting it back on the shelf this morning. A lovely tactile well made piece that had me thinking 'dipped wings' from about twenty feet away....
John
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:24: I've been waiting for you to comment ;D I knew you'd have seen it.
It was torrential this morning, and it's the only thing I bought :cry: I went all round but most people hadn't laid out as it kept tipping down. If I 'd not seen it I'd have driven home with nothing and I was in two minds about it as I practically couldn't see it it was so covered in water, but the date swung it :) Glad you like it.
Sue, I've checked the method of writing with other signed pieces I have and it looks as though it was done with the same implement. So.... :X: it's a graduation piece or similar.
m
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I think my feet are still damp.... That was the worst weather I have yet to experience at a flea market. Enjoyed the day though, plenty of sunshine on the way home but only once we had crossed the Severn Bridge. :sun:
John
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I nearly didn't go, but in the end decided to brave it. Glad I did as I love the vase.
m
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Have no one of that name in my list of Australian artists. The few who were around at that time are generally well known. My thought was USA/Canada as a first impression. Whatever it is a very nice object.
Ross
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Came across this vase again looking for another as you do :)
Having re read the thread Sue ... gong for you - I think it's been influenced by a pupa see here for pictorial evidence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupa
Still looking for Dave Hobart Nov 6th 1974 but Greg may have solved my other mystery!
m
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I saw Greg had come up trumps for you - I never forgot that piece. ;D
I can't see intagram either.
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It strikes me it's very sophisticated for '74 - I think I'd be looking to america or the antipodes to start with. ...
I agree. It's very well and precisely made and the rim finish is good etc. I love the form and the decor actually. Just reading about my other vase and read on as you do, on Mark Hill's site. He shows a number of early Fish vases here
https://markhillpublishing.com/michael-harris-fish-the-earliest-example-yet/
and if you look at the purple and brown one and in your mind, cut off the neck as per mine, it's the same or very similar shape. Is this a kind of shape that's easy to achieve? I think the vase appears to be very accomplished. So who was Dave Hobart (or who was the Dave who was from Hobart/ in Hobart? ) 6th November 1974? Was he at the RCA maybe?