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Author Topic: Date for Isle-of-Wight vase, please?  (Read 6007 times)

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« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2006, 04:01:15 PM »
Hi, can someone help me any info on this Isel of Wight piece please, as I'll be ebaying it this week and don't want to look a total plonker....

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Six inches tall, 2.25 inches square.  Irredescent with strapping. Stopper is clear but with teardrop shaped controlled bubbles at the base of it.  Flame symbol impressed on base.   thanks  Emmi

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« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2006, 04:43:59 PM »
From a non-expert's point of view I'd say not. The strapping is more indicative of Mtarfa/Mdina, so perhaps one of those? Nice piece whatever it is. Sue should be able to confirm though.

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Heck, Emmi, we've all bought cr*p at some stage thinking we were onto winners! :lol: Trouble is, eBay is such a seductive place to hang out... :?
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« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2006, 04:50:59 PM »
It has the I o W flame symbol on the base, so I would not think it is Mdina???

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« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2006, 04:57:16 PM »
In that case I'd say it was definitely IoW :oops: Sorry, I thought you were looking for an ID... I'll get me coat...
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« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2006, 05:03:42 PM »
Aha! There's one very similar shown in the 2006 Miller's Collectables, p.307, but in 'Pink & Blue Swirls' pattern. According to info from Sue, the flame impressed pontil should date it prior to 1982.
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« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2006, 05:23:21 PM »
What about a ballaclava to go with the coat David? LOL

Yes, I just  unearthed my Millers, that one in the book is cylindrical and mine is square (much nicer I think), but same era I think.  I would agree is looks very Mdina-like, but then I believe there is a historical connection..remember reading about it. Didn't Michael Harris, leave Mdina and set up I o W glass works?  I MUST widen my horizons!!!  Emmi

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« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2006, 05:31:39 PM »
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Didn't Michael Harris, leave Mdina and set up I o W glass works?

That's right. He left Mdina in 1972 when the political situation worsened. I think the Prime Minister at the time was Dom Mintoff, if memory serves me correct.

He then started IoW but died in 1994, but his wife and sons, Jonathan & Timothy, carried on and the studio still produces stunning art glass today.

http://www.isleofwightstudioglass.co.uk/

One of the sons left to form another studio (arghh, Sue, where are you...) :lol:
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« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2006, 06:11:18 PM »
thanks for the site link David...I think I have a perfume decanter from the Strapped Seawood range, so very happy with that.  Yes...where is Sue???

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« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2006, 09:58:14 PM »
Johnathan Harris left to set up his own studio in Ironbridge.  I went there in 2004 to see it.  I have three pieces of his beautiful unique work and one piece of his studio range.  I met him there and he signed the piece I bought right in front of me.  Here is his website:

http://www.jhstudioglass.com


 

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