Topic: Vase...murano, surely not...ID help needed please.

[rosieposie]

Hi All  :hi:,

Can anyone throw any light on this Glass studio and the artist  Clarke?....I don't think it is Murano....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330545396473&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123

Help always appreciated folks...

[johnphilip]

Hi Rosie i believe it is Italian xxxx& figlio i believe thats Italian for and sons , can you tell i have been on the ssip .jp :ho:

[singingyamada]

http://www.clarke.mesanetworks.net/work.htmI read it as "Clark Studios"  I googled the name and came up with this.  From what I can gather he is in the states.  And on the ebay page there is no link to ask a question.

[rosieposie]

Hi, and thanks for that link...I did take a look at that one earlier today,  but I am thinking it might be Norman Stuart Clarke.....something about the symmetry of design....we had a thread here in Oct 2008 by Flying Free about one of NSC's egg pieces, and the thread did mention that his son would help,  but I can't find an address for him!
The thread I am thinking of is this one:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,23595.0.html

Is anyone able to help??

[singingyamada]

http://www.clarke.mesanetworks.net/big56.htm
This is James Clarke I read the writing as "Clarke studios 1988"

[TxSilver]

You found the right Clarke. The vase looks like American studio glass in every way. It is a very handsome vase by a respected glass blower. Good catch, singingyamada.

[singingyamada]

Huzzahs what a relief to be able to be constructive instead of always asking.   :smg:

[singingyamada]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330545394701
Looks more Opaline Florence to me as well and I can glimpse a sticker.

[ahremck]

I have to agreee whole heartedly with Anita - it looks Amerian to me as well.  As you can see from his site he has been around a long time and would have the requisite skill to prodeuce a vase like this.  A little unusual is the base marking - USA artists often mark on the bottom edge of the side.

Ross

[rosieposie]

Singingyamada, Anita and Ross....mega thanks for your help  :kissy:....I suppose you are all going to go for it now!!  I'll never learn, will I? :thud:

JP....how's the hangover?? :ho: