You are asking for proof that Earthtones was made at Mdina before MDG was set up?
I thought what we needed was proof Earthtones was made at Mdina long before '78?
We have to use what is available. As you know, things were not catalogued, signed or dated, so we have to use information such as shapes, ground or polished out pontil scars and other features that are only on early pieces.
The nearest thing we have as concrete evidence is that Michael Harris made that globe I showed, at IoWSG after he left Mdina, it has a coachbolt pontil mark, which accurately dates it to mid-to-late 1973 and which Marc now owns.
It proves that Michael Harris was making that design, in 1973, the design he created at Mdina.
Research and finding out new stuff is my passion. I would always encourage it.
nemmie has said he's had a piece of Earthtones with a polished pontil mark, that's early '70s. But we don't have images.
Bullet bowls are early shapes, those triangular thick perfume bottles are early shapes.
I have a massive doorstopper in Earthtones, those are early, pre-'78 shapes, I believe.
I do not think there is any evidence that they were made after Said took over in '75 and things went a bit splodgy.
The tall Earthtones stoppered bottle I showed is cased in milk-bottle glass, not nice clear crystal.
Do you have the date they stopped using broken bottles?
I'm sure that's one of the things your fb group knows about.
This piece would pre-date that.
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