Don't go getting a complex
- contemporary colours are often bought in by makers from the same sources, and so identical colours of pieces can come from many different makers, light can alter colour, and men and women percieve colours the same colours differently - it's very subjective, unless you can measure the exact wavelength of the colour, taking it's density into account!
I often find bits of Mdina are described as orange with green strapping, when to me, they are clearly red with blue strapping.
And it's only asking questions looking at stuff, handling it, talking about it and debating it that anybody learns.
So, the colours of this weight, which I can only see photographic images of, look to you, to be the same as early Mdina. I agree that there it must be silver salts used to get the stripey, a blobby, yellowy/grey/blue bits.
The colours at Mdina were not consistent, they changed density, they were altered by the addition of silver salts, each piece is unique.
The silver salts turned clear glass yellow, red and amethyst glass to browns, blue glass to green. Colours were layered over each other, the silver salts vapourised and got into casings giving a strange, ethereal blue cloudiness, or onto the surface giving yellowy-blue iridesence....
But the
texture of the background colours isn't right in this weight - there seems to be something similar to what goes on when two incompatible enamels encounter each other, or when clear tiny pieces of glass are added over another colour.
The shape isn't right, it's far too pointy, the base isn't right, it's far too small. Not for stuff of the same period as the other bits, which are around the mid to later '70s, maybe a bit later too.
(I've not yet seen the catalogues of the early shapes, though somebody did say they'd make them available on another forum a long time ago.)
ps. Having lots of bits doesn't mean anything - I could have lots of bits of rubbish!
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