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Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Simone on March 09, 2006, 12:42:15 PM

It's a fun vase, obviously layered for the effects...  :D

Front of vase (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10052/1.jpg)
Back of vase (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10052/2.jpg)
Base (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10052/3.jpg)

I don't know who the maker is, it's about 13" high and because the glass is so thick weighs a lot.

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Ivo on March 09, 2006, 12:57:02 PM

they must be fleeing the flu...

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: chuggy on March 09, 2006, 05:45:04 PM

Saw this at the CO OP the other day.
Paul

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Frank on March 09, 2006, 11:27:02 PM

Quote from: "Ivo"

they must be fleeing the flu...

Veiled reference to China, methinks. Ivo may be Dutch but he can English quite well :)

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: KevinH on March 10, 2006, 12:45:19 AM

With those colours of millefiori, it can only be ... Chinese.

A general rule ... whenever primary colours are seen used like this in cane work without other shades or colours ... it's Chinese.

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Simone on March 17, 2006, 11:39:07 PM

Frank, is the flying chickens a graal vase?  :?:  :?

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Frank on March 17, 2006, 11:49:20 PM

No. In view of the canes on the back it could be lampwork. Another possibility is that the design was painted on with the new glass paints - been a few years since I saw any of that... poor mans graal and the colours tend to be gaudy.

With multi-coloured graal, each colour is a complete separate casing and the design is painstakingly sandblasted down one colour at a time, with new masks painted on for each colour. Were the Chinese to do such a thing it would probably cost around a hundred pounds despite the low salarys!

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Simone on March 17, 2006, 11:53:38 PM

Frank, with the chickens, each bit is on another layer of glass, at least, that's what it looks like. The millefiori look to be on the same layer of glass as the chickens though.

Title: Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?
Post by: Frank on March 18, 2006, 12:19:59 AM

That is what the paint looks like too. I think it is a combination of techniques but not graal which gives softer edges and the colours blend into each other to a certain extent.

Meanwhile...


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