Topic: Can someone identify the name please

[vampy1977]

Hi,
I hope someone who knows about glass may be able to help please. I bought this little vase recently in a charity shop as i thought it was Mdina (i have a few pieces already) but its signed with a different name (the second word looks like glass) and all my google guesses are getting me nowhere.
Thanks in advance

[brewster]

Phoenician Glass (another Malta operation). There is lots of online information.

Please show some photos of the whole item - just for the record.

Trevor

[Wuff]

I agree - it looks like "Phoenician Glass" ... but: it doesn't look like any Phoenician signature in my "signature collection" and I have never seen "Phoenician Glass" - always "Phoenician Malta".
I am not saying it's not Phoenician - just a word of caution .

[vampy1977]

here's a photo of the glass vase.

[brewster]

...it doesn't look like any Phoenician signature in my "signature collection" and I have never seen "Phoenician Glass" - always "Phoenician Malta"...

See the third and fourth items on the website below. The signature in both cases is "Phoenician Glass Malta" - and the first of these also has a sticker saying "Phoenician Glass".
http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/maltese_glass/phoenician_glass.htm

I make no judgement on the appearance of the query item, nor whether its signing is within the variation expected - I just don't know the subject.

Trevor

[chopin-liszt]

The object itself is very distinctly Phoenician. 

When it comes to splodgy stuff, Phoenician very often has the splodges in two distinct harlequin "zones" like this, (either vertical or horizontal) while Mdina often has the splodging in a patch on the surface, or all over mixed up.