Topic: Isle of Wight 1980's paperweight - which range?

[jakgene]

Thanks Anton. Lovely photos.  It definitely looks more like your Kyoto Cherry Globe vase than the Meadow Garden Poppy. It is still on its way to me so will be interesting to compare. I have also just bought a Kyoto Cherry Globe vase too as I rather like the Kyoto pattern, so will then have 3 pieces to compare.
Thanks again to everyone for their input.
regards from a sweltering Perth (37C today and it is only spring here!)  :phew:

JAK

[bclem]

Hi JAK!

I lived on the Isle of Wight up to 10 years ago and know the owners of the factory.  IOW is a small island off the south coast of England about 40 miles across.  The factory is based at Ventnor on the south coast of the island.  I recently had some repairs made to a piece of my "Mulberry" collection.  I have copied your picture and will email it to the owner of IOW Glass to see if she can ID the series name for you.  Regards, Bill....Devon, England.

[bclem]

Hi JAK!
Before I email the image, is there a copy right law here prohibiting my emailing it?
Rgds, Bill

[jakgene]

Hi Bill

The photos were not posted on here as they are not mine - they are the sellers, I just put the link to the ebay record up.
I still have not received this paperweight - this time of year there are always delays. As soon as I get it I will take my own photos which you may then freely distribute. I don't think we should be sending the sellers photos around.

thanks for your interest. 


Jackie

[bclem]

Hi Jak!
I have spoken to a chap at The Isle of Wight Glass Studios and he will be happy to ID your paperweight.  He is Ron Wheeler, Sales and Marketing Manager, at the studios in Ventnor Isle of Wight.  His email is    wheeler.ron(AT)talktalk(DOT).net       Regards,  Bill

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[chopin-liszt]

Ron may well turn up and have a look - he's a member here - but he's also a very busy man, give him time. :thup:

[jakgene]

Hi Bill, thanks for that. I have corresponded with Ron before - he kindly confirmed ID on a pair of goblets I bought a while back. So I will send him a photo.

The weight arrived on Friday so I have just taken some photos which I will post here. It is much more orange and green than it appeared in the sellers photos, but having looked at my book and also on the web I still don't know what it is.

It is almost transparent - ie not a white background like the Kyoto range
It is quite heavily fumed - quite iridescent
the green spots are two different shades, an emerald type green and a more turquiosey green.
the amber/brown/rust coloured spots are all the same colour
the black looking spots are in fact a very very deep purple/blue
the trails of colour are almost incised into the surface -where they meet at the base they can actually be felt, but sunken into the glass, not raised out.

would love to opinions from anyone interested.

regards

Jackie

[glassobsessed]

Perhaps New Kyoto Black? See page 101 of Mark Hill's Michael Harris book, left hand column, last paragraph.

John

[chilternhills]

I am getting confused here too! To me the most similarity still seems to be with Kyoto Cherry, but there are clear differences. Kyoto Cherry does not have the dark, almost black spots, and the pink on the PW is salmon pink rather like Meadow Garden Foxglove (but it's not Foxglove) whereas Kyoto Cherry has a pale pink. Maybe it's because the PW is heavily fumed. It is definitely not New Kyoto Black (see here: http://iowstudioglass.wikidot.com/newkyoto).

Well, as Alice said, 'Curiouser and curiouser!'

[jakgene]

Thanks John & chilternhills for your comments. I have had a look at New Kyoto black and don't think there is a similarity there. I have two pieces of Kyoto Cherry, a goblet and a small vase,  and it is not the same as those. They have a much whiter base - this as if it has been fumed directly on to the clear glass, and the "pink" spots on the PW are more topaz than pink.

I have sent a copy of the photos to Ron at Artius Glass to see if he can help. Will report back when I hear from him.

regards
JAK