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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Louise on March 24, 2021, 08:58:51 PM
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Hi
Can anyone tell me if Ed Iglehart made very small perfume bottles. I have recently bought one and it looks like his work. Unfortunately I am having problems down loading pictures.
Thank you in advance
Louise
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;D I strongly suspect you have something by Tom Young. Ed didn't make perfume bottles, Tom Young does. Tom Y. did train with Ed. He is not Ed's son, Tom Iglehart.
Have you encountered Ed's website?
This link should get you started... ;D
http://tipiglen.co.uk/resume.html#associated
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Hi Louise,
I am having problems down loading pictures.
What problems are you having with downloading (or did you mean "uploading")?
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:) Keith has copies and will resize and post them, Kev.
I don't think it's Tom Young or Ed Iglehart. Or Lauscha. I think it's really interesting and rather lovely. ;)
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ok.
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Hope these images are ok....
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Thanks.
It is gorgeous, isn't it? I am wondering about the German girl who did lampwork in Oban, who we have been unable to track down.
This is what I said about a vase like one I bought in 2001, when another example turned up here in 2009.
"I paid £32 perhaps about 8 years ago for mine, in an art gallery!
I did nag and nag them for more information about the maker, on more than one occassion - first when I bought the piece, and again, after Frank saw mine and fell in love with it. Ziltch, apart from this:-
The title of the piece is "Golden Rain". (This was typewritten on the sticky label on the box. This was all that was written on it.)
Info. from the gallery was that it was made by a German girl, working in Oban.
As it is lampwork, this would not have required a great deal of equipment or even a proper studio. At Frank's suggestion, I wrote to a glass worker (engraver) who had also worked in Oban, but it was a good while before I recieved a very kind, but sad letter in reply from his widow. It had taken some time for my letter to be forwarded to her. Also sadly, she was unable to give me any information about any German girl doing lampwork there, and the trail seems to have gone completely cold.".
I can't seem to find the image in Frank's "Scotland's Glass" website. :'(
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Thank you Keith, pictures look good. :)
Would be so nice to know the maker on this piece, I have it under a LED spotlight and the red in the glass looks as if it is glowing hot !!
Thank you Sue too.
Much appreciated help
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Your welcome ;D ;D
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is the symbol on the base a Japanese, Chinese or Korean signature maybe? I'm really sorry, I have no idea of the difference in characters between the languages but it just looks as though it could be perhaps?
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Think you might be right M, it does look Chinese, I'll have a look in my Kanji dictionary, it might take a while it has 47,000 characters !
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I thought you might know Keith :) but 47000 characters - oohoo that's worse than searching through the Walsh Walsh book with a magnifying glass.
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It does have an i-ching look about it, too. :)
That might be a bit easier to investigate first, before getting into the dictionary. ;D
I feel is is a maker's mark, not neccessarily indicating eastern origins.
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;D
I like to give you all a challenge !!!
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:P ;)
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is it lampwork? rather than tiny blown piece?
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That's a very good point, m!
It doesn't have the upkicked base of lampwork.
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Still looking, it is similar to the Japanese and Chinese character for hand, is Stephen still around, he might know ;D
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Ooh I just came on to say that I'd found that it looked similar to 'hand'
https://kirstenmortensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/japanese-kanji.jpg
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That's the one ;D
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Oh, does this mean this could be a Japanese piece of glass ? It certainly looks like the symbol. :)
I will try and do some research myself, thank you to all who took some time on researching this beauty
Louise
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I don't think so, personally. I think it's just what is being used as a maker's mark.
It hasn't got the "extremely neat and accurate" feeling I expect from Japanese work. It's much more free-flowing.
I could be wrong. ;D
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Yes I see what you mean Sue, looking at oriental perfume bottles and nothing looks like this.
I would love to know who made it, looking at the stopper today and it is perfectly made and fits so well in the bottle.
Will keeping looking !!! ???
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Previous posts have suggested the "mark" on the base to be similar to the Chinese / Japanese character for "Hand". But I see a free floating "dot" in the lower left of the character - does this change the meaning?
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If you look at the symbol on the link M posted,
https://kirstenmortensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/japanese-kanji.jpg
you can see there is a "hook" on the bottom of the vertical line. I wondered if the dot was to signify that. ???
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There is a Japanese Glass Group on Facebook that may be able to help. Worth joining for that alone if you are not already a member. :)
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A bit left field perhaps but there was an Australian glass artist whose HH stamp looked very similar. I have only seen small mushrooms by him. However he worked at Richard Clements studio in Tasmania. Richard uses burners not hot glass and makes stunning perfumes. Here area some photos the first two are Harry Harkus, the second pair examples of Richard's work.
Ross