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Tony Patti 2022-2023 Glass Art
(You can Click on any of the images below to see a full-size photograph)(white spots are reflections from the lights)
This is a four-spout footed glass art vase.
I was inspired by undersea creatures such as the Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila), corals, and anemones.
This is my final project for Glassblowing Fall 2023.
I am calling this a “pedestal footed bowl” with crackle glass (ice glass) fish (to look like scales).
The bowl and pedestal were made with optic molds.
The foot is made from a two-part bronze mold, called “flower irons” here is some background on those:
"These flower irons, which were heated and then pressed together with fabric in-between, were used in the sewing, tailoring, and millinery industries
to form those wonderful silk, velvet and felt flowers that graced the garments and decorated the homes of years past."
The lamp shade is crackle glass (ice glass) after applying two colors/layers of glass powder, likd of a volcano/lava look.
The base is cast glass (from an ancient cast iron cookie mold, heart design).
The feet are solid glass, made from an optic mold.
Dr. Judi Lavrich, MD is an eye surgeon with a sub-specialty in pediatric ophthalmology.
She did a total of 7 procedures on me, my wife, and our daughter.
Dr. Lavrich is retiring at the end of 2023.
You can see the eyeball footed bowl I gave her, as a retirement gift, in this photo.
I told her that because she won’t be able to look at eyeballs after she retires, at least she will have this eyeball to look at…
This photo was taken at the Keystone Clash, September 2023.
The fish bowl itself has green fins.
The base is made out of four cast glass fish.
There is a historical context for glass daggers, in Murano glass history.
See, for example, page 327 of Marina Fiorato’s book “The Glassblower of Murano”:
“A Venetian exit. They had used a glass dagger [made of] Murano glass.”
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