This is a large vase, which can be used practically for cut flowers, but it is beautiful enough to display in your home on its own. If this vase is placed where the sunlight can shine through it, it enhances the gorgeous peachy-coloured tones around the top, which is really stunning.
This vase is made using reactive glasses, and silver foil. No, not the silver foil you wrap your sandwiches in, but 99% silver foil. When silver is fired with reactive glasses, it ‘fumes’; the effects of those fumes is what gives the peachy tones you can see at the top. Additionally, it reacts with the turquoise frit (crushed glass) which means the frit pieces really stand out.
Why have we called this ‘Fire and Ice’? Because the blue of the frit reminds us of ice, and the smoky peach reminds us of fire - it just looks like the melting pot from which the earth started - nothing too grand then!
The vase is known to fusers as a ‘drop vessel’, because it’s made by putting the fused glass blank (flat tile), onto a ring mould and elevated above the kiln shelf. As it heats, the glass softens and drops through the middle of the mould. On removal from the kiln, the top of the vase is removed and then shaped and ground to finish.
The vase is 23.5cm tall, and 17.5cm wide.
This is a large vase, which can be used practically for cut flowers, but it is beautiful enough to display in your home on its own. If this vase is placed where the sunlight can shine through it, it enhances the gorgeous peachy-coloured tones around the top, which is really stunning.
This vase is made using reactive glasses, and silver foil. No, not the silver foil you wrap your sandwiches in, but 99% silver foil. When silver is fired with reactive glasses, it ‘fumes’; the effects of those fumes is what gives the peachy tones you can see at the top. Additionally, it reacts with the turquoise frit (crushed glass) which means the frit pieces really stand out.
Why have we called this ‘Fire and Ice’? Because the blue of the frit reminds us of ice, and the smoky peach reminds us of fire - it just looks like the melting pot from which the earth started - nothing too grand then!
The vase is known to fusers as a ‘drop vessel’, because it’s made by putting the fused glass blank (flat tile), onto a ring mould and elevated above the kiln shelf. As it heats, the glass softens and drops through the middle of the mould. On removal from the kiln, the top of the vase is removed and then shaped and ground to finish.
The vase is 23.5cm tall, and 17.5cm wide.