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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: ttttootall on February 03, 2013, 01:24:12 AM
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Bought in North Carolina.
Can anyone make out this signature.
Sculpture stands a little over a foot.
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Could we see an image of the actual piece, please?
The green "glow" you have in uv light there is not uranium, but manganese.
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Here are more pictures. This piece is difficult to get good pics because it picks up any light around it. Sorry this is the best I can do. :'(
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Also, had to look up the word (manganese) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese...I love new words and this was a very interesting one.
Is it used often in the production of art glass?
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It can be used as a "decolourant" in clear glass. (I can't remember what "contaminant colour" it corrects :-[ )
Are there yellowy and bluey colours in the sculpture itself? or is it all clear?
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not sure it's manganese, Ive gotten some similiar effects from some silver fuming and have also gotten some simiiar effects of potassium strikes in a reduction flame with the right type of batch.i.e Glasma batch and cullet. Large glass community around Asheville,NC and probably from one of the locals. Bob Stephan of HIS Glassworks did some internal things like this many years ago. just a guess.
BTW: manganese usually will take out the green that comes from iron in the silica.
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I think I can see bits that look like what might be silver fuming!
To be honest, I don't think I'm familiar with "silver fuming" per se - I'd LOVE to know what it's like, I've got a real thing about silver and glass reactions!
However, the nearest to fuming I know of, is the effect found on Mdina and Isle of Wight SG, when the gob of molten glass which is being coloured with silver salts (chloride or nitrate) gets detached from the rod and some silver gas escapes from inside and deposits itself on the outside.
There are a couple of patches on this sculpture which look like what might be what I'd describe as "trails of comets", found on early Mdina and IoWSG.
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Yes there is milky yellows and blue through out the piece.
Here is a couple more pictures that may show the colors.
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That definitely looks like silver effects. ;D
I think it is safe to say this is not modern Chinese. The square pedestal had me worried just a little bit.
It's rather a nice thing!
Now we just need somebody who can make the signature out!
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Guess I should have mentioned...the square base is acrylic.
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I'd love to see the signature a little bigger.
I am thinking Nalor, Nalu, Nalin or Valor, Valu, or Valin at the moment.
A very interesting and nicely balanced piece.
Rosie. :)
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looks a little like the work Ed Nesturek did. He was arounfd Pittsburgh,PA. Glass of this type from what I can see in the photos was identified by "Silver Veiled" glass. Nick Labino and several others played around with this stuff a lot. It was a silver based formula.
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I've tried to get better pictures of the signature but it is located on the glass so close to the base that it is almost impossible to see even with magnification. When I purchased this the seller did not even know it was signed. That is how difficult it is to see. Wish I could send better pictures.
After reading the previous reply I looked for examples of Ed Nesturek's work with signature and am pretty sure it is not his...but the colours are very close, however the signature is not.
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Yes, I looked them both up and the signatures are very different, but their style is quite similar in some pieces. On with the search.... I am using 200% magnification to see the signature better!!