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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: firebird on October 16, 2016, 05:57:58 PM
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Hi. I recently bought this bowl in a job lot at auction. Can anybody help me identify this signature. It appears to start Fle or Flo and ends with a t.
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Reminds me of Loetz "Schaumglas" (particularly Ausführung A) >> Link (http://www.loetz.com/decors-a-z/ausfuehrungen/ausfuehrung/ausf-a)
It would be good to provide dimensions and a side on shot. Neither can I see the base finish properly, so I may be completely off the track ;-)
Michael
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Hi, thanks very much for your reply, it does look very similar. I'll take some better shots tomorrow.
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The dimensions are 11cm diameter x 6.5cm height.
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Just to confuse things ::) the pattern is similar to this piece of Royal Brierley art glass, ;D ;D
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As someone who knows very little about this type of glass, I think the right-hand vase in Keith's pic shows a good match to the design pattern.
The "Loetz Schaumglas / Ausführung" A that Michael linked to all have white powdered stripes as a feature of the pattern. However, the pics in Reply #2 do seem to show a sort of striping, or is that a trick of the light?
Keith, what is the base of your item like? Does the pink pattern continue to the underside as in firebird's pic?
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I can't work out what this signature but Royal Brierley is nearly always signed Studio Glass.
I've attached more pics which show the cloudy white streaks and the signature a little clearer.
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Picture of base, Royal Brierley Studio is not always marked or may just have Royal Brierley without 'Studio' I'm sure this is not RB Studio,their art glass usually has a label and no marks, I wondered if this was a piece of 'Foundry' glass, a studio attached to R. Brierley, any chance of a close up of the base and rim ?
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Hi Keith. Is this what you mean? I have a collection of Royal Brierley but mine is all the iridescent range from the 80s which all have Royal Brierley Studio Range engraved on the base. I've never seen the one in your pic so I can't comment. It's the signature that's confusing me. The base has a concave polished pontil mark with a slightly rough area left in the centre. Thanks for you interest.
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The one I posted is from the 'art glass' range not 'studio' the signature doesn't look like the 'foundry' pieces I have, I did see a piece recently with this 'stretched' red spot pattern, that wasn't marked and wasn't R. Brierley either, think you have a bit of a puzzler here ::) ;D ;D
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Firebird, could you make your images bigger please? They need to be around 700 pixels along the longest edge so that we can see the detail clearly. Smaller images distort too much if we try and enlarge them. If you struggle getting them small enough to fit under the file size limit for the board you need to optimise them (sometimes called compress in image software.) We have a help topic how to resize images to fit the board in our help forum here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34093.0.html but do shout for help if you get stuck. :)
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Thanks Anne. They are compressed files in jpeg format from Photoshop. This signature is really difficult to photograph. I can barely make it out using a 7X mag eyeglass.
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Firebird I have found that in some cases the signature can be seen far better by taking the photo from a shallow angle. This takes out of play the underlying pattern and colour and sometimes gives a clearer result.
Here is a vase of mine that illustrates a case where the shallow angle is far better than a front on shot. I find the best light source is the sky.
Ross
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Hi, thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try.
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I think these are clearer
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How about Fladgate - Deborah Fladgate?
John
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It is. Deborah Fladgate. I do recognise her work in this.
Similar pieces can be found on the web.
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That's great. Thanks very much for your help, much appreciated.
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Glad you've found the maker ;D ;D
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Thanks Keith. I've just been looking at some of her pieces. Some very imaginative work.
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She is very highly thought of. :)
She won an award at the Scottish Glass Society Exhibition in Crieff in 2004.
(Although this link lists it as being a 10th anniversary thing, it wasn't. I was there, I remember Deborah Fladgate winning the prize. Nobody could ever forget that exhibition, there was a disaster, a shelf came down and the gallery owner Owen, was injured.)
http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/archive/2009/the-revivalists/deborah-fladgate/