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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: glassobsessed on September 11, 2023, 11:00:52 AM
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Anyone have any clues to the maker of this vase? It is signed I think but far from legible, 15cm tall.
John
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Very nice beast indeed, 8) but I don't recognise even a style. :'(
Do the spots have a tiny air bubble in them - it looks as if they might. Kind of like "Nazeing bubbles" with a halo - but these seem to have two haloes - a darker and a paler one.
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Last two numbers are 98 I think?
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Could it read MADIE before that?
(I don't think Madge is a very common name these days ::) )
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Nadia?
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I did wonder at first if they were random grinding marks but that does not seem to make any sense. Tough to be sure of any of it. Easier for me to photograph the spots!
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;D I like the spots. But I can't work out how they could have been done. I somehow don't think it is the sodiium bicarb haloed air bubbles, it's more like tiny decorated bits of cane, perhaps?
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Friend has vase in similar colours bigger, quite large but again a sort of bulbous body and then neck similar ish. But it was that beautiful coloration and the spots (though the spots/cloudiness on hers is different to yours iirc, that colour mix is the same and just incredible greys and lilacs) that reminded me of hers. Just checked and hers is signed Adam Turnmill 1986. So Adam Aaronson - so am thinking yours reads Adam 93 ( I now think it reads 93).
btw I covet her vase - it's the most beautiful piece of glass and I want it but she's not parting company with it. I covet your vase as well. I love that lilacy colour mix. Just gorgeous.
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Forgot to ask about the pontil mark on hers as that might be a query on yours I think? if it is by Adam.
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I'd pop Adam an email and ask him. Could be two sets of initials, which I've seen on his work before. AM/AA for Andy Moncreiff and Adam Aaronson.
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There is something about the shade of the opaque lilacy-blue reminds me of Charlie Meaker. A bit of a something about the shape too, and the base finish is consistent with his work. I do not know what his signature looks like, my bit isn't signed.
Just felt like flinging a wee spanner in.
Ignore me if you like. :)
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Ok I've now seen a pic of hers albeit from a distance and the colouration and the way the colours graduate is very very similar to yours. I can't see in my old pic close enough to see the details but it's a stunning vase. Forgot to ask her to send a pic yesterday. Memory failed me on shape though , it's a fab shape wide and big sort of flattened front to back oval shape in height, but no neck, just a wideish oval rim.
I was remembering another bottle vase she has on sat on the shelf below which is globular with neck.
I'm taking bets it's by Adam :)
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Sorry, been out all day, have to admit Mr A was not on my radar. Saying that, he has been working for a long time now and he is both varied and prolific. Intriguing!
As for how the spots are made Sue not sure what else they could be other than bits of cane - murrine I suppose, dark purple centres with lilac outer layer. Looks like some sky blue enamel thrown in and a layer of white powder including some bigger white chunks over the top.
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Some more photos but this time with better lighting, there is a slight greenish tint to the glass and something about that shape speaks to the 1980s for me...
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I still think the last two inscriptions read 93. Not that it helps with the signature...
It's lovely. The way the canes and colours have been worked and laid on is beautiful. It reminds me of 1920s French glass in that respect (although not the shape).
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Yes there is a lightness of touch about it. A couple of days after I bought it I kept having the feeling I had seen it before. Then I remembered it was in the same shop the last time I stopped there five or six years ago. ::)
Another snap of the signature but heavily tweaked with extra shadow.
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I checked Adam's signature on the base of a vase from 2005. It is nothing like this.
Also the vase shows evidence of what might be an 8-pronged rod being used, not a snapped off scar left - it looks to have been heat treated.
And it's nothing like the writing on this. Adam's writing is neat, completely legible and the script is rather spikey.
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agree Sue. Friend's vase well signed and easy for her to read- and if it wasn't she wouldn't have been able to tell me on the phone as not a glass collector. So ... new pics do the last two letters now look like A I to anyone else? Weird that it's so badly signed but so beautifully and proficiently made.
Also wondering if it might be French. We were down there a lot up to about 12 years ago and there were a few glassmakers around where we lived. They were doing some beautiful colours and decor (but the shapes didn't appeal to me that much so didn't buy anything whilst we were there )
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AI is absolutely everywhere these days. ;)
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oops just modified my post to add question about being a French maker perhaps?
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I'm not really sure there is any connection here but have you checked Sanders and Wallace? Cannot see how that signature could be linked but there is a vase on ebay - too long link and don't know how to shorten - that has canes and a similarish way of signing. I don't think there's a link but there might be ... shortened to initials would be AS and DW
on ebay now as Sanders & Wallace Vintage Glass Vase 1984
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I struggle to see much of a connection there, however, in these searches it always pays to keep an open mind!
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I agree but just in case it leads to something else.
Here are some of their archive pieces - their signature is always very neat though and has always been so from what I can find:
https://www.sandersandwallacearchive.com/vases/
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Yes, always seems to be legible from my experience too. Very useful archive that, don't think I have seen their Comet or Ripple patterns before, both lovely.
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;) I was dribbling a bit at some I hadn't seen before too - Ripple in particular.
It is a lovely link to have a drool over, I'm delighted to have seen it.