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Author Topic: Puzzle,who made me?  (Read 1583 times)

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2014, 11:47:53 AM »
More well done to Keith for finding it.   ;)

The only other Iestyn Davies PB I've seen is the wee one I found in a charity shop in a posh area of Edinburgh.
Ivo has it now.
I was merely taking a complete shot in the dark, m. I just landed lucky.  :D
 
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2014, 03:43:39 PM »
maybe made when he was working at his company Osiris glass.  I've just seen another piece with a very similar neck but different decor.
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2014, 05:26:01 PM »
You wouldn't happen to know the dates of Osiris, would you?  :)
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2014, 05:41:08 PM »
I was going to ask if any one could put a date to it,there is another mark below his name but I've no idea what it says,this is the best I could do, ::)

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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2014, 05:45:23 PM »
'94?
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2014, 05:53:07 PM »
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,43956.msg244836.html#msg244836

there is some more info in the thread above.
Blowzone appears to have started  at least by 1999.  In my Studio Glass book  Graham Maclaren page 5 it shows a piece from Blowzone dated late 90s.

No mention in my crafts council book dated Jan1993 of Iestyn Davies or Blowzone or Osiris or even Royal Brierley studios (either of them) that I could find.
The vase I've seen is labelled Osiris and has the same design neck as Keith's perfume.
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2014, 05:56:51 PM »
see above and I would agree that says 94
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2014, 05:57:51 PM »
Here's the bottle I had. It is dated '88.
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2014, 06:12:52 PM »
'Iestyn Davies worked for Stuart Crystal from 1985 to 1987 after leaving Stourbridge College of Art. He becamethe resident coloured glass artist. In 1986 he designed some new glassware ranges including the Ebony & Gold and Dark Crystal ranges (see below) - these were only produced for a short period. In 1987 he set up Osiris Glass at Broadfield House Glass museum in 1987.'

Source:  http://www.ysartglass.com/Strathearn/Strathearn.htm

So from 1987 he set up Osiris glass - glass presumably signed and also used labels (have seen labelled piece).
From late 90's he set up Blowzone at the Centre - so perhaps he worked at Broadfield House for 10 years or so then moved to the Centre.  I have a perfume bottle that the owner said was bought at Broadfield House when he was working there.  I think I recall that was mid 80's. (it was 80s she said, not mid - link to bottle attached now)  She therefore presumed he made it (unsigned but very possibly his work, nothing about it to suggest it wouldn't be, but I've not checked with him yet).  Edited to add, it's worth noting thought that my perfume has a cut and unpolished rim on it.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37355.msg204504.html#msg204504
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Re: Puzzle,who made me?
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2014, 06:30:45 PM »
He worked at IoWSG for a short while too, designing the original "Firecracker" there, before going to Stuart Strathearn.
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