Large Mouth Blown Encalmo Art Glass Platter / Lampshade

Piece measures 19" wide by 7" deep.  It weighs  9.5 pounds.

Pink, Purple and White exterior with vibrant Saffron Yellow and White interior, Black Lip Wrap.
Produced by a professional Seattle glass artist.

This piece is blown in stages with multiple overlays.  This lampshade / platter was formed using encalmo technique, in which two separate forms are blown simultaneously and worked until the lip of each is the same diameter.  The two molten lips are joined, and the vessel is cut from one punty rod or blow pipe.  After subsequent reheating in the glory hole, one end of the combined vessel is opened.  This technique results in glass forms that can incorporate vastly different types of glass in a single object.  In this shade, a white blown form was joined to a form with yellow glass cased inside of white, inside a design layer in Pink and Purple, inside a clear lens layer.

This piece changes color when lit from inside.

Condition Report for this piece:

There are no cracks or scratches.  This piece has production flaws.

This has a blown out bubble in the white area on the inside of the piece.  It measures approximately .25".

It also has a string of black glass stuck to the lip wrap,

and another fine string of black glass stuck to the yellow area on the interior.

The Saffron Yellow area of the interior has dark specks in the glass.

This platter has the pontil remant in place and would need to be ground and drilled to be used as a hanging or tabletop lampshade.  See pictures. 

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Piece measures 19" wide by 7" deep.  It weighs  9.5 pounds.

This piece was produced by a professional glass artist living in the Seattle area.   Signed works by this artist are shown in Seattle area galleries and are sold for many hundreds of dollars.  He is very selective in choosing which pieces to sign.  An inconsistency in pattern, a bubble, a form that is not what he sought, imperfect color play, or any small feature of production that belies anything less than the perfection sought, and the piece goes unsigned.

Condition Report for this piece:

There are no cracks or scratches.

This has a blown out bubble in the white area on the inside of the piece.  It measures approximately .25".  It also has a string of black glass stuck to the lip wrap, and another string of black glass stuck to the yellow area on the interior.  The saffron area of the interior has dark specks in the glass

This platter has the pontil remant in place and would need to be ground and drilled to be used as a hanging or tabletop lampshade.  See pictures.  No chips, cracks, or scratches.

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