Purple Art Glass Vase by Anthony Stern, late C20th
| Starting Bid: | £30.00 |
| Bid Increment: | £2.00 |
| Next Min Bid: | £32.00 |
| Buyer’s Premium: | £7.20 |
| Total Amount: | £37.20 |
| Number of Bids: | 0 |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction Start: | 02/12/24 20:55:00 UTC |
| Auction Ending: | 16/12/24 20:30:00 UTC |
| Auction Finished : | 16/12/24 20:30:00 UTC |
LOT NUMBER 16
Purple Art Glass Vase by Anthony Stern, late C20th
This is a strikingly bold art glass vase heavily blown with thick walls, the simple ovoid body with a small concave aperture at the top and a rounded spreading foot below. The light purple of the body is contrasted with the clear glass base and the underneath contains the incised signature of Anthony Stern. Born in Cambridge in 1944, Anthony Stern (see image 7) was initially known as a film maker working with many of the pop stars and media personalities of the 1960s and 1970s including Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. By 1976 he had begun to tire of this and went on to complete an MA at the Royal College of Art in Glass then becoming a highly successful glass maker whose work eventually found its way into the collections of Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Elton John, the Saudi Royal Family (Red Sea Palace), the Victoria & Albert Museum, Barclays Bank, Morgan Stanley, the Nomura Group, Sir Derek Jacobi, and the Broadfield House Glass Museum amongst others. To Stern, there was a firm link between the two disciplines once saying that ‘Glass and film are identical, they’re both translucent materials through which light passes.’ Eventually succumbing to Parkinson’s, after which he made a brief return to the world of film, Stern died in 2022. His work was mainly sculptural and often employed an imaginative use of colour effects (see image 8 showing his glass studio). The form here is much simpler and seems also to have been made in much smaller white glass examples. His pieces are signed with an etched, slightly dotted inscription bearing his name as here. The size and colour of this piece appear to make it unique and a desirable acquisition for collectors of C20th art glass or perhaps devotees of the pop culture which flourished at the time.| Size: | Ht 30cm, Width (max) 20.5cm, Bas 13.5cm |
| Weight: | 6.2kg |
| Date: | Late C20th |
| Condition: | Good condition, no issues but can have a slight lean when viewed at certain angles |
| Estimate: | £60 – 80 |
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