The Tall Neck Bottles, Quackenbush Glass

Tall Necks

A series of willowy vases in several shapes and many colors. I began making these one day when everything else I touched was hitting the floor. So I just played with my tools, molten glass and some scraps of color.

I had been using a triangular mold I built from graphite, so the first pieces I made with the tall drawn up neck had a triangular base shape, with oval marks on each side where the hot glass had cooled in contact with the graphite. The soft ovals have always reminded me that glass was a fluid when I worked with it.

The lip was created by gripping the glass and pulling the neck up had an uneven shape, and a small crease which spoke to me of the process. It was an imperfection, one usually cut off.

But it has always been my intent for the hands of the maker to remain visible in the finished piece so I cherish those variable shapes and folds. They too remind me of the molten nature of glass as it is blown.

Group of Tall Necks

Available Transparent Tall Necks Triangular

Triangular T in transparent aurora — Aurora

Triangular T in transparent cobalt blue — Cobalt

Triangular T in transparent grass green — Grass Green

Triangular T in transparent deep purple — Purple

Triangular T in transparent violet — Violet

Triangular T in transparent yellow — Yellow

Triangular T in transparent adventurine green — Adventurine Green

Available Transparent Hex Tall Necks

Octagonal T in transparent yellow — Yellow

Octagonal T in transparent steel blue — Steel Blue

Octagonal T in transparent purple — Purple

Octagonal T in transparent grass green — Grass Green

Octagonal T in transparent aurora — Aurora

Octagonal T in transparent aqua blue — Aqua Blue

Octagonal T in transparent adventurine green — Adventurine Green

Murrini Hugs

One day I had finished the orders for transparent solid bottles, and the annealer (where the glass cools to destress) was not full. Not being one to waste money and electricity I decided to play with murrini. I began with round forms, since they are the basic building block of most forms, and sprinkled murrini on a plain white background. A simple cylinder, I thought, but very quickly it became a round T Neck bottle, with a nontraditional placement of murrini.

The class I had taken most recently had caused a plethora of square murrini to accumulate. So I lined them up in the clamshell preheating oven, rolled a fresh gather of molten glass across the line holding my work at a slight angle. Traditionally the gaffer is very careful to place his work square across the pattern, matching every single circle of colored glass in a perfect pattern.

But I am a modern glass artist, and rules are meant to be a tools, not boundaries, so the Murrini Hug was born!

Kate Quackenbush

Available Round Hugs Tall Neck

Round Hug T in yellow and cherry murrini — Yellow and Cherry

Round Hug T in yellow and navy murrini — Navy and Yellow

Round Hug T in violet and white murrini — Violet and White

Round Hug T in steel blue and white murrini — Steel Blue and White

Round Hug T in purple and white murrini — Purple and White

Round Hug T in pint and white murrini — Pink and White

Round Hug T in orange and red murrini — Orange and Red

Round Hug T in lime and white — Lime and White

Round Hug T in grass green and white murrini — Grass Green and White

Round Hug T in fuschia and white murrini — Fuschia and White

Round Hug T in cherry and white murrini — Cherry and White

Round Hug T in multi blue murrini — Multi Blue

Round Hug T in navy and white murrini — Navy and Enamel Blue

Available Square Murrini Hugs Tall Neck

Square Hug T in blues and adventurine green murrini — Blues and Adventurine Green

Square Hug T in cherry and white murrini — Cherry and White

Square Hug T in fuschia and white murrini — Fuchsia and White

Square Hug T in lime and adventurine murrini — Lime and Adventurine

Square Hug T in orange and red murrini — Yellow and Orange

Square Hug T in pink and white murrini — Pink and White

Square Hug T in amythest and white murrini — Purple and White

Square Hug T in yellow and cherry murrini — Yellow and Cherry

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