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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Scott13 on December 15, 2016, 05:55:32 PM
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Any help in providing an identity greatly appreciated :)
The enamel has been painted ( and fused ) onto the surface of the glass - which under magnification has a fine orange peel appearance. There's also a hint of iridescence.
It has a rough pontil mark.
It looks as though it's been deliberately made to look cloudy.
Height about 17cm
Thanks for looking
Scott
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please could you post a photograph 600x400 pixels and clear, of the base?
The base shot is very important and can be a factor in getting an identification.
thanks
m
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Hi, best I can do-hope it helps.
Scott
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And another !
Scott
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It looks very similar to my William Walker 'Chinese' range vase.
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Hi, many thanks for your help - it does look very like one of William Walker's pieces - possibly from the 80s ?
Scott
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Hi, posting another pic as I really don't think my first one does it justice - hope you don't mind ;)
Its abstract design really is something - quite captivating- but of course I could be biased !
Scott
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This is a signed William Walker bowl with a ruffle rim.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stunning-And-Rare-William-Walker-Art-Glass-Bowl-White-Dainty-Signed-Dated-1987-/182346328828?nma=true&si=7AjpgCVmXQ4OC5u7ay2ghVuBNNc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
It could be remarkably similar to your vase however
the lighting on your photograph makes it very hard to see if it is the same kind of trailing design and the same opalescent effect.
m
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Hi m, had a look at your bowl - not sure about my vase now ???
My vase's 'white' appears to be quite ' feathery ' and the design trailing rests very much on the surface of the glass.
With a bit of luck the attached pics will help. :)
Thanks
Scott
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Hi, after having looked at your bowl for the umpteenth time I would say the finer more tangled bits of trailing could well have been done by the same hand - a bit like comparing handwriting styles I suppose.
Certainly the rim and pontil marks look similar - not sure about the opalescence though.
Not sure where this takes me - back to William Walker I hope :)
Scott
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I don't know if WW pieces had the decoration on the surface of the pieces.
Stuart Strathearn did - it reminds me of that a little as well.
m
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Hi, I'll have a look at Stuart Strathearn.
The only other name that crossed my mind was Norman Stuart Clarke; but only because of his fairly frequent use of black trailing.............
Yet another anon to my collection ? :-\
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Another WW vase to compare with here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39500.msg358799.html#msg358799
Have a really careful look for a signature, they be very hard to spot.
John
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Hi John, thanks for sending the link.
Haven't been able to find any monogram, signature on my vase - just the broken off pontil mark !
I can see what could be a W ( could be my imagination of course ) within the pontil mark of Dingledodger's piece ?
I've attached the nearest I can get to a close-up of my vase's base - I could be missing something 8)
Scott
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John, op's vase is surface decorated though. The colour and design is 'on' the glass surface rather than an integral part of the glass.
I've not seen a WW vase like that admittedly on fairly cursory net surfing though.
m
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It is always harder going by photos only, having an item in your hands can really help provide those subtle clues. How much the canes and chips used to form the decoration stand proud will depend on how they were further heated and worked, the more marvering and heat the smoother the end result.
I had the opportunity to handle Ben's WW handkerchief vase in that link, beautifully made, very thinly blown and so 'fluid'. The signature was not on the foot but around the base of the vase where the foot was attached.
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yes it is difficult ... perhaps I'm not seeing them 'right' but Ben's fluted vase also looks as though it's opalescent in appearance i.e. the colour appears to be the metal, rather than there being bits of glass surface fused on.
Or... are there actually bits of white glass in the metal picked up from the marver, rather than it being a colour from the pot or produced on cooling as it were?
m
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That I don't know m, I would assume a clear gather rolled in coloured powder to give the colour rather than there having been a pot of that pale pinky mauve. Might have to ask Mr Walker himself to be able to answer that question definitively.
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Hi, two dimensional images certainly have their shortcomings.
Anyway here are some random observations which might help to flesh out my original description :)
The glass has been thinly blown ( like Ben's piece it's quite delicate) - if tapped it emits a tinny note.
There are a few seeds and the odd elongated bubble in the area just below the rim. There's also an elongated open bubble on the inside surface.
There are a number of striations in the glass - presumably what you'd expect in something that's been hand blown.
I don't think it's opalescent.
I think the white has probably been picked up on the marver.
Where the white ( which has a feathery look ::) ) has been applied the surface of the glass is slightly rough - hardly discernible.
The pink looks very like the pink found on IOWSG Pink & blue swirls ( I'm not suggesting any connection- just an observation re the colour ! )
The decoration has definitely been applied to the surface - it hasn't been cased.
If you run your finger over the surface you can feel that it's raised.
The inside is perfectly smooth.
Hope this might help :)
Scott