Topic: Vase id needed please ....Isle of Wight?

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I've missed this - wasn't "around" last September.

Both bits are early Mdina. I'd say the big bottle was definitely within the Harris period, the first three years, I'm not so sure about the cylinder vase.

However, don't get too excited Keith, I don't think it was Michael Harris who made these. Currently, the main speculation is that it might have been Joseph Said.

That crescent shaped pit in the base is fairly common, and the cloudy patterned big bottle, although the same shape is in Mark's book as being "later", when it's that cloudy sort of pattern, I think it's more likely to be during the Harris/Boffo period.
I've seen these, in an Earthtones pattern (a very distinct one) and in a similar cloudy effect in blue (I have one with a massive stopper). That distinct Earthtones comes along with both polished and ground round pontil marks, which was something not done after Michael Harris left.

My big blue cloudy bottle has a ground round pontil mark....and a crescent shaped pit, on a fully ground base - a (when I say ground, I mean quite roughly, as opposed to polished and shiney).

Finishes on bases in the early (Harris) period were very random - it all depended on somebody being available and having time to get it done. Before they got their own polishing equipment, somebody had to cart everything off to a polishers in town.