Mdina Pieces - Yes or No

[chopin-liszt]

 

I would doubt very much indeed that the piece you saw was really by Maurice Marinot - especially at such a low price, Keith!
Tragically, most of Maurice Marinot's work was lost in a fire, very few pieces remain and most of them are in museums.

(I'm not laughing at you - but at the audacity of the seller!)

I think he is considered to be more part of the Arts and Crafts movement - he preceeds the Studio Glass Movement of the '60s.

Sam Herman (now a British citizen) is currently working with Adam,  - as in Adam Aaronson, who is right here on the GMB!
 

[keith]

Like I said before I'm still learning,good job I didn't have the money to buy it then,intend to visit Adams studio on my next visit to town,Keith.

[chopin-liszt]

The whole purpose of the GMB is to help folk learn, Keith.

Every question helps promote disscussion and to facilitate learning for everybody.
 

and as I edited to add, I wasn't laughing at you, but at the audacity of the seller - who had been hoping to take advantage of somebody, and hopefully, the GMB helps to prevent that sort of thing going on!

[Lustrousstone]

Just my two pen'orth. It wasn't a recipe Labino came up with, it was a small enough gas-fired furnace that would melt cullet or marbles. John Airlie of Kirkhill Glass took it one stage further when he developed a small gas-fired furnace that would produce glass from scratch.

[chopin-liszt]

 
Thanks, Christine.
I'll try to track down my reference for this, (can't remember where I read that bit in particular,perhaps I imagined it?). Have found this info, though, in "American Studio Glass 1969-1990". Martha Drexler Lynn.

p.54. "Littleton and Labino focussed on how to prepare molten glass that could be blown. The first batch of glass did not melt into a workable consistency, and the stoneware container (one of Littleton's vessels) used as the crucible broke apart in the high heat. Labino suggested that they remover the failed batch and melt directly into the tank. He also urged them not to waste time on perfecting glass formulas, but instead use his#475 glass marbles, which were used by Johns Manville to make fibreglass."

[KevinH]

Hi folks.

Just giving this thread a "bump" so Non-Paperweight folk have a fair chance of viewing the discussion, which originally took place as a development to a paperwight query.