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Title: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: jingyel on May 18, 2019, 04:50:24 PM

Hello Everyone,

I just bought a art glass vase from local auction. It has signature on the bottom.

I wonder if you could help me to identify the artist or studio who made this beautiful piece.
Thank you for the help.

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: jingyel on May 18, 2019, 04:54:24 PM

another photo

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: KevinH on May 19, 2019, 12:33:34 AM

Hi jingyel,

Please try a tip we like to pass on about hard-to-read signatures:
1. Apply a small amount of talc (or simillar) to the area of the signature
2. Smooth out the talc with a dry finger
3. Gently blow or wipe off any talc remaning on the surface
4. Take another photo of the now clear-to-read signature area
 :)

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 19, 2019, 12:50:23 PM

Or cinnamon or cocoa powder.  :)
Could the signature read Stan Melis?
I can kind of make Melis out.

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: jingyel on May 19, 2019, 04:12:29 PM

The first letter looks more like a B to me

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 19, 2019, 05:14:49 PM

Yes, sort of, but there isn't a glassmaker who has B as the first initial to Melis, but there is a Stan. ;D
And I don't think this style of work would be incompatible with Australian Studio Glass.
Can you try the powder trick to help bring the marks up? :)

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: brewster on May 20, 2019, 12:55:24 AM

I don't think Stan Melis, Sue. The style looks wrong and I cannot see his sig there either. Good of you to be thinking of Oz glass though.

Trevor

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: SveziaJonas on May 20, 2019, 05:45:47 AM

Are there a year 2001?
Looks like it in the third picture, if so maybe easier to narrow it in.
/Jonas

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 20, 2019, 12:50:42 PM

 :-[ I wasn't absolutely sure about the style, Trevor, but I never forget Australian glass.  ;D

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: jingyel on May 20, 2019, 02:31:51 PM

Yes it does show 2001. So may be a art work from the young generation?

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: KevinH on May 20, 2019, 07:29:10 PM

I have taken the liberty of making copies of the images and cropping, rotating and tweaking. These images can be removed by a moderator on request at any time.

Are any of these any better for deciphering? (I do not see the "2001" as mentioned above.)

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 20, 2019, 07:34:00 PM

Now, my imagination is trying to make Bertil Vallien out of it.
Perhaps I ought to have a lie down. ;D

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: catshome on May 20, 2019, 09:25:05 PM

I wonder why they signed on the body not the base....... I can't think of any of my pieces that are signed into the finish unless the base is very small.

Title: Re: Need help to identify this art glass vase
Post by: flying free on May 20, 2019, 10:17:23 PM

I think American makers sometimes sign around the body of the piece at the bottom?