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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Malta Glass => Topic started by: Paul S. on October 30, 2014, 06:42:56 PM
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having dabbled a little in Mdina etc. some years back, this looks to have the right sort of blue and silver chloride mix that I seem to remember, although this is presumably an item made recently.
Almost 3.25" (80 mm) tall, and markless. Is it Maltese and am I correct in saying it's an owl? :)
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Yes to Mdina but not recent, Sue might have a better idea of around about when. It seems to be quite a hard pattern to find this one, I have only ever seen small items made in it - animals and posy sized vases.
If it looks like an owl and quacks like an owl...
John
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thanks for that John - look forward to Sue's expert advice. :)
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A couple here Paul one had an early paper label
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This rather handsome one.
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very nice Chris - thanks for posting - they do make for a very attractive colour mix. So does appear they are probably a fair bit older than I first thought.
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Lovely owls... all of them, thank you for sharing them with us... I have a few, but never enough! ;)
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chriscooper's owl is a completely different decor to the one Paul posted, it's one in which a rib mould has been used to incorporate the silver chloride salts internally.
The one Paul showed has a mosaic-like surface decor of silver chloride effects, and as John said, it is a hard decor to find, and only ever found on very small pieces. I'm not sure of the date, perhaps mid-late '80s/early '90s. I don't think it was continued for any great length of time, given the scarcity of this decor.
It is mostly found on owls. I have a little squat pot vase, about 2" tall and 3" wide.
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A very big thanks Sue - you are such a store-house of information on this subject :)
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This design apppears to be contemporary with another produced on similar small items. It's a surface decor, of a matt pink backgound , with deeper pink spots and stretched blue splodgy bits. I think it's really, really horrible, but it's even scarcer than this lovely patchwork pattern in teal blue and mirrored yellow.
I'll get a pic of my little squat pot, and one of the horrible matt pink thing. I do have an example of it. It would show the shape of other things which might have the really attractive design on.
No light atm.
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is it the same decor as this?
I want an owl to match it! :D
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That's the same shape as my horrible pink thing, I have an owl I don't need, in blue and yellow, with paper label, although the decor isn't the best. I'll send you some pics when I take them. ;)
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I think I might have found one of these cute little vases that match all the Mdina Owls I have.
Just over 2.5" tall and beautifully rounded with a label and signature.
Some photos for the record.
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More pictures of Base signature and label. :)
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Here are a few of mine in that colourway.
Mod: Images rotated to vertical.
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My little group has grown now, and I really do like these.
I have since discovered that these were made by Raymond Sultana (who is now at Valletta glass). I met him when on holiday in Malta this year.
I also include a picture of the little lovebirds he made in this colour-way... the only ones in existence. Raymond owns them, not me, sadly.