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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: Smitty on October 16, 2020, 01:07:17 PM
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Does anyone recognise this impressed mark on the bottom of a heavy blue glass vase?
Thanks
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Dartington Studio. Two blowpipes. :)
Any chance we could see the whole thing?
The Studio didn't last for terribly long. They set out to emulate older styles in a studio manner using the best materials, as were used in the past. Eg. gold to create cranberry and gold foil worked on the surfaces. This resulted in some fabulous pieces, but they were very expensive and didn't sell terribly well, so the studio range of goods was discontinued.
It was around the early '00s it was first set up.
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Thanks Sue for putting me right once again on this one. Attached are a couple images on the vase as requested. I would never has guessed Dartington I seem to have dismissed Dartington since Frank Thrower left. As for this vase all I can say its heavy and is 14.7cms high. Do you know who was actually responsible for the work?
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:) I'm afraid I do not know who was responsible.
I got interested in it at the time, because I found some Alchemy pieces in a sale in a local posh department store. I could see the quality and bought them, then tried to find out more.
I was paying attention in the Stuart factory shop in Crieff, which got the new Studio ranges in when they were first made and even had a charger, made to order.
I wasn't really interested in their final range, which was all a bit frilly and cranberry for my tastes.
The earlier bits seemed to have been based on Monart. Alchemy and the one with a bright backgound colourwith a melted-in crizzle pattern in white.
I have not seen a cloudy piece like yours, before. 8) Thank-you very much for the image, you're teaching me. :)