Topic: RCA / Mdina Harris zigzag bowl

[WhatHo!]

Hi Guys, there has been a fair bit of chitchat on Facebook about this bowl. Any opinions on it?

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/reeman-dansie/catalogue-id-srree10032/lot-c588d3b8-a8fc-458a-9855-a491009748c1

http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/Lot/?sale=PG121010-2&lot=691&id=182344

Has anyone got or got any pics of any other signed Harris RCA pieces pls?

Cheers Wolfie

[chopin-liszt]

 
I cannot see any marks on the first link (I can only see the first pic) so I can't really work out how there is an RCA connection, and the second link bowl has a Mdina label, so that can't be RCA.
I do have a blue bowl like this, but it doesn't have the zig-zags, just the thick applied layer under the rim.

[glassobsessed]

Can't say I am convinced by that signature. The same bowl selling twice rather than two examples?

I would happily buy it for my collection, one of the shapes I am missing. The signature would go if it turned out to be recent addition.

Has anyone got or got any pics of any other signed Harris RCA pieces pls?

Can only suggest asking Ron Wheeler or members of the Harris Family.

John

[WhatHo!]

Sorry, the 2 links are for the same bowl. Sold at different times.

[WhatHo!]

Sue, that was some of my point. If someone had faked the sig then they must be fairly knowledgeable so surely they would have then removed the sticker?

[chopin-liszt]

It can't possibly be RCA with a Mdina label.
(I still can't see more than one image in the first link, so I can't comment on the marks.)

There is no telling what marks some dodgy geezers will try to put on bits of glass. Just because they've heard that a Harris signature is worth something doesn't mean they won't try to shove it on something inappropriate.
I don't imagine dodgy types worry too much about correct information.

I've seen things claiming to have Harris signatures that did not resemble anything Maltese far less a Harris signature (they couldn't even spell "Michael") and Lalique enscribed on a very common pressed glass pink vinegar/oil bottle.

This is my bowl.

[WhatHo!]

Nice bowl