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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: D-TABB on May 30, 2013, 07:04:00 PM
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hi i,ve been trying to research a glass lady figure i own .its been snapped off its base but is otherwise perfect(no base)i,ve noticed its on the front cover of the lampworkers bimini pirrelli catalogue(bottom left perched on a ball small stem then a large ball.mine has broken just below the small ball.what i,m wondering is is it worth repairing?.thanks dave.
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Hello Dave, and welcome to the board. It sounds like your figure is a Komaromy. Could you add photos so that we can see it and be able to confirm that? I have no idea if it's fixable or whether it'd be worth it, but I'm sure others will have advice and opinions to share with you.
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Something like this ?
http://www.cambridgeglassfair.com/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2011-02-Istvan-Komaromy.htm
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Hello Dave,
I have sent a message to a wonderful lampworker who may be able to help.
I have given her the link to this thread, so hopefully if she is in the country, she will get in touch with you. :)
I collect Komaromy Figures and hate the thought of this one languishing broken and not on display. :(
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Thank you for replying. I have been unable to load the photo's on this site for some reason, if anyone has any tips i will upload photo's. It is the same as in the link that vidrioguapo put on from the lamp workers catolougue. Thanks Dave
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Photos resized and added to original post at the top. Sorry for not doing it sooner Dave, Hotmail decided you were a junk message and binned you, I just found it now when looking for another missing email. ::)
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I don't believe she's Komarovy, sorry.
She has great thick ankles - Komarovy ladies don't.
The rest of the modelling isn't right either. :'(
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Here are a couple in the same pose, or very similar.
I don't think it helps that Dave's photos are rather small and blurry.
http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/three-art-deco-glass-models-of-female-nudes-by-is-490-c-a1faadd6d9
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Maybe it's the angle the pics are taken from? ???
She doesn't look at all elegant to me. :-\
But you know far more about Komarovy than I do, rosieposie.
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They ain't all that small, but they are a little out of focus.
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This is DEFINITELY Istvan's Komaromy's work - I guarantee this, as his daughter. Sometimes, the ankles were less 'skinny' - just like us!! It's where he joined on the dancer to the base, which he made separately as its blown, not sculpted.
As far as having a repair done, you could do worse than to contact Bob Martin (The Glass Workshop) who used to work at Pirelli's. Hope this helps.
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Thank-you so much!
I don't know terribly much about your father's work, I do know there was somebody else doing similar, but not of such high quality - and I always check for "cankles" - using this as a feature to help me decide.
Now I know I can't do that any more. :)
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Thank you so much for answering my 'call for verification' so quickly Chris. I had no doubts at all, but Dave needed to be certain... I hope he contacts Bob Martin and has this repaired, I can't bear to think of your Father's work languishing broken. :'(
My collection is slowly growing, with a new little pony added as the latest piece.... treasure!! :)
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You're most welcome - perhaps the wrong time of the month made the 'cankles' bigger occasionally!!!
He had many students over the years and a very few went on professionally to work in his field - who is the person you know of who does similar work ?
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I don't know the name, sorry.
The figures tend to be on black pedestals or have black bits of glass attached.
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Be interested to have a look at any photos you may have as may be able to help! Any time.
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Maybe you mean Rowan Van der Holt's Work chopin-liszt?
Beautiful work, and I have contacted her to see if she might be interested in some restorative work....no reply as yet, but early days.
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No, not Van der Holt. Far too sophisticated for the bits I'm thinking of.
The figures tend to be white glass, often as the stems of glasses, and just a "poor-man's Komaromy" .
I'm just learning, please forgive me intruding in this thread with my rather banal comments. :-[
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Maybe these are the type of glasses you mean chopin-liszt:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20th-Century-Pair-Of-Bimini-Art-Glass-Naked-Lady-Cocktail-Glasses-/261184137915
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yes, rosieposie - that's them, with the cankles! ;D
Not the same quality at all, are they?
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Well. to add to all this after all this time. Dave did end up selling this piece and I bought it. John made a half sphere of wood and sank the end into it.. so the finish is very like the stags and a couple more pieces I have and so now it can be displayed. I also have one in a very similar pose with the proper glass sphere base, so I can see what she would have looked like.
You can see them both in this group photo. :)
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Here is another picture of the repaired one. another on a wooden base and one on a glass spere. :)
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And the cabinet as it is today, :)
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What a lovely job he's made of it Rosie.
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Thank you Nancy... I couldn't bear for her to be shut away in a cotton wool lined box... and it is wonderful to see her 'dancing' again. :)
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Your hubbie is a clever chappie, Rosie, he's made a super job of the base and she looks fab again now. :)