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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: keith on January 10, 2014, 03:04:36 PM
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2 inches tall,quite heavy for it's size,the only clue is the UK ???
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Is this a query - or a test? ;)
Is the neck really how it appears? To be a conical amber shape, inside a clear, straight "funnel".
We have a small general clue/lead to follow, with the use of gold foil.
But a lot of folk have used gold foil. ???
So one has to consider the design too. Modernist, probably fairly recent.
It's small, but with that neck, a complex piece - it's hard to make something small and complex. Requiring experience as well as talent. I am wondering about our Adam A.
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A test,yes the neck is conical inside and no it's not Adam A,recent yes but not sure of the date,just hope I've read the name on the base correctly,he has his own site and is still working. ;D ;D
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Chris Dodds? He uses round paddy feet and gold foil.
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Nope, ;D ;D
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Iestyn Davies?
I know he made little zebra stripe perfume bottles with two shades of gold foil. On a "blocky" round foot. I had one.
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love that shape and the whole thing actually :)
is it a cut and bevelled/polished rim?
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I don't think it's Allistair Malcolm - but then, he always surprises me. :)
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Polished rim,Sue got it, ;D ;D it does say Iestyn Davies,if not I apologize in advance, :-[ ;D ;D
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well done Sue :)
It's beautiful Keith.
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More well done to Keith for finding it. ;)
The only other Iestyn Davies PB I've seen is the wee one I found in a charity shop in a posh area of Edinburgh.
Ivo has it now.
I was merely taking a complete shot in the dark, m. I just landed lucky. :D
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maybe made when he was working at his company Osiris glass. I've just seen another piece with a very similar neck but different decor.
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You wouldn't happen to know the dates of Osiris, would you? :)
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I was going to ask if any one could put a date to it,there is another mark below his name but I've no idea what it says,this is the best I could do, ::)
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'94?
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http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,43956.msg244836.html#msg244836
there is some more info in the thread above.
Blowzone appears to have started at least by 1999. In my Studio Glass book Graham Maclaren page 5 it shows a piece from Blowzone dated late 90s.
No mention in my crafts council book dated Jan1993 of Iestyn Davies or Blowzone or Osiris or even Royal Brierley studios (either of them) that I could find.
The vase I've seen is labelled Osiris and has the same design neck as Keith's perfume.
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see above and I would agree that says 94
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Here's the bottle I had. It is dated '88.
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'Iestyn Davies worked for Stuart Crystal from 1985 to 1987 after leaving Stourbridge College of Art. He becamethe resident coloured glass artist. In 1986 he designed some new glassware ranges including the Ebony & Gold and Dark Crystal ranges (see below) - these were only produced for a short period. In 1987 he set up Osiris Glass at Broadfield House Glass museum in 1987.'
Source: http://www.ysartglass.com/Strathearn/Strathearn.htm
So from 1987 he set up Osiris glass - glass presumably signed and also used labels (have seen labelled piece).
From late 90's he set up Blowzone at the Centre - so perhaps he worked at Broadfield House for 10 years or so then moved to the Centre. I have a perfume bottle that the owner said was bought at Broadfield House when he was working there. I think I recall that was mid 80's. (it was 80s she said, not mid - link to bottle attached now) She therefore presumed he made it (unsigned but very possibly his work, nothing about it to suggest it wouldn't be, but I've not checked with him yet). Edited to add, it's worth noting thought that my perfume has a cut and unpolished rim on it.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37355.msg204504.html#msg204504
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He worked at IoWSG for a short while too, designing the original "Firecracker" there, before going to Stuart Strathearn.