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A pair of heavy hand blown art glass vases, swollen ovoid forms with saddle rims that dip on two sides, in a dense mottle of white and dark brown suspended over a glowing amber gold interior. The walls are thick, the weight is substantial, and the mottling stretches and thins toward the rim exactly as the glass was blown out.
That stretch is the whole story of how these were made. The gaffer rolls a hot gather across a bed of crushed coloured glass, picks up the chips, then melts them in and blows. Everything that happens afterwards is recorded permanently in the pattern: where the bubble expanded fastest the chips pull into long streaks, where it expanded slowly they stay round. So the decoration is not applied to the shape, it is a map of the shape being made. The saddle rim is the last move, made by hand while the glass is still soft, which is why no two are identical and why the two here dip at slightly different angles.
Both vases are intact with no chips, cracks or bruises found at the rims or bases, and no internal fractures under light. The surfaces are bright with light base wear consistent with age. Neither carries a signature or label.
About eight inches tall against the rule. Pairs of hand blown glass this size almost never stay together, because one always gets knocked or given away. Put them where morning light hits and the amber interiors do something a photograph cannot show you.
