Topic: signature help please: Sherry Glass, wound stem - ID = Cowdy

[josordoni]

I have recently bought a little batch of modern studio glass, some is easy, some is rather less well known, so I would be grateful if anyone can recognise the signature/style of these pieces.

This is a very pretty modern drinking glass, Sherry size I would think (or possibly small white wine), the stem is wound with pink and purple strips of glass. Approx height 5.25 ins 130mm diameter at rim 5.25 ins 130 mm.

[Lustrousstone]

Cowdy Glass?

[josordoni]

That would seem to be a distinct possiblility Christine.

I wonder, does Harry Cowdy blow glass or just manage the gallery? 

I would expect the other artists to have their own signatures rather than using the gallery name?

[chopin-liszt]

 :mus:

I was SO chuffed I could read this and answer it, I was SO determined to get in first, and now I've come here to tell you, I'm pipped at the post, (at least it was by Christine, which soothes my wounded heart a little) but I'm off to sulk with my best coffee anyway!

[Lustrousstone]

It was a glass workshop before it was a gallery. It seems likely that there was  "bog standard" range to support the arty stuff and sell to visitors. I also think I saw a signed paperweight in the last couple of weeks.

[josordoni]

Great thanks so much Christine,

stroke stroke never mind Sue... LOL

[Martyn K]

These were designed by Anette Meech around 1977, I think I've had a few with her signature on as well as those just marked Cowdy.

There's one illustrated page 69 of "New Glass", Corning MoG, Pub.1979.

[chopin-liszt]

 

I thought Cowdy Glass was Pauline Solven .... I didn't know Annette Meech was involved there too??

[Martyn K]

Can you take Adams word for it if you don't trust me Sue  

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,17449.msg101366.html#msg101366

[chopin-liszt]

 

Absolutely nothing to do with not trusting you, Martyn - it was my sketchy "knowledge" that I didn't trust, which was the reason for the surprise in my response!
I know they were at the RCA and the Glasshouse together - and am lucky enough to have a couple of pieces by each of them from around this peroid. I also have a large number of Apollo glasses, which I use. They take me fondly back to buying a set (from Boots, second floor, display stand near the door on the second level, £3.45) in the mid-'70s, for my very first flat on my own. I thought they were wonderful then, and I still do now.  :thup: