Posted 6 years ago
ahremck
(14 items)
This paperweight represented quite a mystery as its date significantly predates Cathy Richardson and her son Colin Richardson's creation of their wonderful encased lampwork weights. They started making them in about 2002. This is dated 1994.
It turns out that she did in fact do the sandblasted bird images of this weight. She had blanks made by Crystalforge and then "intaglioed" the decoration(confirmed by a personal post online).
Beautiful!
Love the bird. Was she happy to see her old piece? I sometimes wonder how artists view early works, and how they fit in to their style development.