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Title: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on July 03, 2009, 08:14:24 PM
Hi this unusual flask shaped vase has many layers of glass in different colours.  pink cased glass on the inside and yellow blue and green .at first i thought it was handpainted but its made of many layers of thick coloured glass .has age related wear on the base so not a modern piece in any case too much work gone into it .measures 27cm tall x 17cm wide x and a depth of 9cm and weighs 1.5kg any ideas please ?
thanks Allan
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: Andy on July 04, 2009, 09:51:52 AM
Possibly one of the Maltese companies, Mtarfa or Phoenician. (not Mdina)

Andy
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 04, 2009, 02:44:18 PM
I would tend to agree, though I know fairly little about either of these under-rated companies - particularly their more recent work, some of which can be quite stunning.
A very nice piece. I like it very much. I tend to associate pink with Mtarfa more than Phoenecian.
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: Andy on July 05, 2009, 10:36:00 AM
Allan,
just thinking, im surprised if Maltese, theyre not signed.
Im sure youve looked hard,but nothing hidden around the base, lost in the pattern?
sometimes a place where some studios sign their pieces.
or lost in age wear scratches on the base?
By the style and colours, I wouldnt think its very old, but could be 1980s, which is
nearly 30 years, and a heavy item could pick up a bit of wear.

Cheers
Andy
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on July 05, 2009, 11:41:44 AM
ok thanks Andy will have another look
regards Allan
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on July 05, 2009, 12:37:49 PM
No definately no signature
regards Allan
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: kazleeb on July 05, 2009, 12:43:19 PM
hi,ive got a mtarfa vase that isnt signed just a lable,kaz
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on October 04, 2012, 10:40:26 AM
I have Still got this vase any ideas ?
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 04, 2012, 11:20:18 AM
I'd suggest writing to both Phoenician and Mtarfa to ask them.
By the '80s, it was getting far more common to stick a label on than go to all the trouble, work and time consumed of marking the all the pieces individually.
If you have no luck with them, the last Maltese port of call would be Gozo.
I'm sure it's from around there.  :)
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: flying free on October 04, 2012, 02:57:45 PM
I would have thought Chinese possibly  :-\ what is the base like - please can we have a clear photo of it?
thanks
m
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: Andy on October 04, 2012, 03:31:48 PM
Gozo may well be a good possibility
 8)
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on October 05, 2012, 04:15:51 PM
thanks i have added a base shot the underlying colour is a pale speckled pink with lots of layers of different colours on top

Allan
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 05, 2012, 04:24:56 PM
 :)
I can't tell what the surface of the base looks like - is it polished to a high shine?
Title: Re: Can you help identify this vase please ?
Post by: allan_666 on October 05, 2012, 04:59:39 PM
Hi Sue it's a perfect flat polished base but not that shiny more matt finish

Allan