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Vintage Blue Blown Glass Stockbridge Mass Glass Artist
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(9/7/2008 8:00:00 PM) |
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USD 57.99 |
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Part of a collection of Blown Glass
from the late 1970's made and purchased
in Stockbridge, Mass.
by Sonja Blomdahl or Susan Haddad
it is unsigned so not sure which.
Primarily a glass artist, Sonja Blomdahl studied at Orrefors Glass Studio in Sweden after earning her BFA at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1974.
After graduating, Blomdahl moved with a friend to a small, cinder-block house in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts and built a studio with a furnace. Sonja Blomdahl and Susan Haddad made hanging fish bowls in clear glass and small, dark jars with wavy, ribbon-like handles, selling them at craft fairs. Heating the place would have cost too much, and winters were too cold to work. . I met them during that period first at the Rheinbeck New York Craft Fair and began to collect the pale bluegreen pieces also visiting that early studio a few times watching Sonja and Susan blow and shape the molten glass into pieces some of which are now up for auction.
In 1983 Sonja Blomdahl was able to build her own hot glass studio in Seattle, Washington, where she has worked and taught ever since.
Twenty-two years later, Blomdahl is in the forefront of Seattle's glass art movement, making vessels that are no more than 2 feet high and pear-shaped, open half-circles or stout hourglass. Today she shows around the country and commands upwards of $3,000 a bowl.
Glass is a collaborative medium, in which crowds are the norm, but Blomdahl likes to work with a single assistant. In a year, she blows about 100 pieces good enough to sign.
This unsigned piece is signed stands 8 inches with the top on and
measures 7 1/2 inches wide at the handles.
There are no chips, scratches, it is a flawless original.
Moving and presenting for auction today.
Thank You for looking and
Good Luck Bidding
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