Beehive form glass vase with a swirl design, probably by Charlie Meaker, late C20th
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| Number of Bids: | 3 |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
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| Auction Start: | 21/10/25 11:15:00 UTC |
| Auction Ending: | 05/11/25 20:10:00 UTC |
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Beehive form glass vase with a swirl design, probably by Charlie Meaker, late C20th
A glass vase of beehive form with a narrow neck, a flat flaring rim and flat countersunk base with a bubble to the centre, decorated in white, blue, pale green and pink with trailing spirals, some banded, separated into irregular segments. Both the form and the style of decoration here closely resemble pieces made by the glass artist Charlie Meaker (1946-2011). Image 7 shows a very similar piece by him included in an exhibition at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK in 2019 and another vase can be found of a different shape but with similar decoration and the characteristic pontil mark at the base (indicating thar the piece was hand blown) next to which is his signature. But not all his pieces were signed and the parallels here allow a reasonably certain attribution for this piece which probably dates to the late 1980s/early 1990s when Meaker was teaching at the Design School in Copenhagen.Charlie Meaker was born in Montana, USA, in 1946. After graduation in 1968 and a spell as an Olympic skiing coach, he studied glass design in England, Canada and Sweden before settling in the UK where he taught at Sunderland before moving to Copenhagen where he spent the last twenty years of his life. His work can be found in museums in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands and the USA and is collected today. A former colleague wrote, ‘He was brilliant at energizing people and pulling together groups of creative people to make beautiful glass. He made things happen. He made workshops and studios happen. ... Charlie was a very humane man: demanding, mercurial, funny, stubborn, loyal, infuriating, committed, intelligent, questioning and tireless’.
| Size: | Ht 16cm, Top diam 6cm, Base 17cm |
| Weight: | 855gm |
| Date: | Late C20th |
| Condition: | Good condition, no issues |
| Estimate: | £60 – 80 |
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