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Author Topic: Bowl, yellow tinge, blue applied rings  (Read 2715 times)

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Offline Hotglass

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Re: Bowl, yellow tinge, blue applied rings
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2008, 11:17:40 AM »
Oh How to explain this without sounding ....elitist or snobby.
The base is mat / matte / frosty looking because it hasn't been polished.
It hasn't been polished to save money.
Polished base is always preferable and is a sign that the item was designed for the upper end of the market.
Sure polished bases do get scratched eventually and todays mass consumers are not so fussy about minutiae like this but to a glass collector it's still important. That's the long and the short of it. Ed.

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Re: Bowl, yellow tinge, blue applied rings
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2008, 03:58:52 PM »
Ed,
thanks, i quite understand what you mean.
Although, i was just searching on here for something else, (Anthony Wassell)
and i just read this thread,
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6380.0.html
 
Quote from Leni on that thread,
'Don't assume China.  I'm not saying it's not, but I have a Peter Layton paperweight with a matt finished base.  I also have an Alistair Macintosh weight with a similar finish.  And at Art in Action last week we saw Anthony Wassell pieces with the same sort of base. 

Just to be quite clear, I'm not saying this piece was by any of those glass artists, just that too many people see the matt finished base and immediately say "Chinese".  Other people than Chinese glass-makers do sometimes finish their work in this way.  That's all I'm saying.'

Im sure, generally, Ed, that you are quite correct
Andy
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Offline paradisetrader

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Re: Bowl, yellow tinge, blue applied rings
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2008, 10:17:46 AM »
Andy
You are quite right to point that out but there's a reason why what Leni said does not apply here. All the names she mentions are studio glass artists. Your bowl, I believe, was made at a larger glassworks or factory. I think thats the assumption we are all operating on here.

She was also talking about paperweights only and if the design of the weight is such that the base does not show through then it's rather pointless to polish it. She also doesn't mention if the weights were 1st quality, signed etc etc. Horses for courses.

An unpolished base is just a pointer to what it's not. Along with other indcations it may suggest certain countries but a complete list of countries which have produced glass finished in this way is probably rather long. Mexico for example ? Kazakhstan ? How exotic would you like to get ? LOL

It certainly doesn't necessarily mean Chinese. The last Chinese I saw in a shop was superbly finished.
Pete
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