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Author Topic: White Splatter - ID = Mdina  (Read 4515 times)

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Offline Tinker-Taylor

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White Splatter - ID = Mdina
« on: October 02, 2009, 10:34:13 AM »
The glass is really quite thick, and the vase is quite heavy for it's 6½" height.

The pontil is flat and polished.

I was thinking Mdina but would welcome any correction.

TIA
Stu.
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Offline Ivo

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2009, 10:40:17 AM »
i have something very similar with a Mdina signature so you could be on the right track

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2009, 11:28:17 AM »
Very possibly Mdina, but definitely NOT sommerso

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2009, 11:30:59 AM »
Does this help?Keith.

Offline Tinker-Taylor

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2009, 12:16:18 PM »
Thanks Keith - that's pretty conclusive - it looks just the same, give or take.

Re: 'sommerso' and my (not fluent) understanding of the language and pattern of the vase, isn't the pattern, strictly speaking, submerged in a similar way to that which was first created by the Venetians? 

What I wouldn't want anyone to think is that I had any delusions about this vase being Venetian; I was only seeking to use the often-used term for submerged colour.

 :) :) :) :)

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2009, 12:39:26 PM »
Sommerso, broadly speaking, just refers to coloured (but generally transparent) glass encased in a layer of clear glass. But, being an Italian term, it might be perceived as disingenuous when applied to non-Italian glass.

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Offline malwodyn

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2009, 02:26:07 PM »
It would have been nice to read the article on sommerso without much of the text being obscured by intrusive advertising.

Offline Tinker-Taylor

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2009, 06:45:00 PM »
Grazie tutti!

Ciao for now!
Stuart & Emma Taylor.
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Offline kimanded

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Re: White Sommerso Splatter
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2009, 08:15:21 PM »
hi keith and tinker-taylor and all.
you have just id our little vase for us ;) it was going to be one of our next posting thanks guys :thup: kim & ed

 

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