Topic: small Mdina or IOW vase, unusual foot and broken pontil = probably Mdina

[Andy]

A pretty little vase, surely it has to be Mdina or IOW, nice little button rim, Mdina colours,
browny purple, but i havent seen a Mdina with a footed base and broken pontil,
so im leaning towards early Isle of Wight 
Any theories anyone :huh: :huh:
Cheers
Andy
ps its just 8 cm tall and about 7cm widest point, foot is 5cm across.

[josordoni]

Well the silver chloride and the button rim would have shouted Mdina to me too Andy, but what a great unusual colour if that is the case!

[Pip]

I agree, the colours are saying Mdina but it's not a shape I'm familiar with.  I'll have a look through my Mdina & IOW book tomorrow and see if I can find the shape or anything similar.

[Andy]

Thanks Lynne and Pip,
Ive got Mark Hills book, and a fair collection of Mdina, but I havent seen this shape before, and
the colour is unusual too, i will happily think of it as an early Harris experimental piece ,
although i dont expect i can prove that!!
Maybe Mark will have a theory.
Regards Andy

[Lustrousstone]

It could equally just be a piece of studio glass from somewhere else. I'll ask Sue M to have a look, she has a huge collection of Mdina and IOW and a definite feel for the stuff. She's conserving her energy at the mo so not board watching

[chopin-liszt]

  :huh:

I'm not sure at all!
Definitely not Isle of Wight Studio Glass, because they use coloured enamels, rather than colour melted in the pot.

The applied foot really confuses me. The browny purple does look right-ish, if the colour is in electric light-bulb sort of light, but it's hard to tell really, it looks a bit too red, I'd need to get my paws on it. The silver chloride does look right-ish, but I think other folk were also using this. I'm not convinced by the foot in conjunction with the broken pontil, and the button rim looks a bit tall for Michael Harris early period, though I have a couple of post-Harris perfume bottles in spirally striped tortoiseshell pattern with a similar rim - though these are very heavily cased.
What sort of colour is the clear glass? A good clear clear or is it a bit greeny or yellowy?
I'm afraid you may have to wait for Mark Hill to comment. My guts say not Mdina, but I may be wrong. It's too hard to tell from pictures, I'm afraid.

[johnphilip]

 Have a look at item 120202840523 on ebay now MDINA Slightly similar and signed.

[Pip]

I don't think that helps nail this - the eBay item you've found is the more familiar shape with the expected Mdina flat polished base as opposed to the, unusual for Mdina, applied foot on the item in question here.

[Andy]

Thanks for the input everyone, i think there must be a link with Mdina or IOW,
maybe an ex designer.
This little vase on ebay has similarities,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Isle-of-Wight-glass-vase_W0QQitemZ110210476488QQihZ001QQcategoryZ75559QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

by Chris Lucas who worked for IOW, and now Alum Bay, a possibility, or maybe my vase came from one of the other Maltese studios :huh:

Mark, if you pop in, any opinions??
Cheers Andy

[Andy]

Mark,
just noticed you are online, any ideas??
Regards
Andy