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Mdina? but how old please?

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flying free:
Thank you both very much  :)  I really appreciate it.
Christine having never seen another piece I am wary of giving incorrect information :) because I have nothing to compare it to, but in terms of colour I held it up to a halogen spotlight tonight.  It appears the effect of presenting as green  is made by a turquoisy base with gold (shiny) and yellow (matt gold) streaks in it along with some opalescent but very thin milky white streaks. So as you say it doesn't appear to really be green  :o

However, as long as it stays looking green I am happy  ;D

m

malwodyn:

--- Quote from: flying free on November 29, 2009, 08:12:56 PM ---Thank you both very much  :)  I really appreciate it.
Christine having never seen another piece I am wary of giving incorrect information :) because I have nothing to compare it to, but in terms of colour I held it up to a halogen spotlight tonight.  It appears the effect of presenting as green  is made by a turquoisy base with gold (shiny) and yellow (matt gold) streaks in it along with some opalescent but very thin milky white streaks. So as you say it doesn't appear to really be green  :o

However, as long as it stays looking green I am happy  ;D

m
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The yellow streaks could well come from silver chloride, which was used in the early Mdina days - for how long, I do not know.

As for the Maltese cross on a prunt, I have a smallish cylindrical vase with a spiral turquoise/blue trail over an orange body, and a Maltese cross prunt over the end of the trail.  The body colour is not one I associate with Michael Harris' time at Mdina.

Lustrousstone:
All the streaks are silver chloride in this, whether yellow, brown or iridescent. The colour depends on how close to the surface and which layer of glass it's in. Silver chloride is still being used at Mdina today. I suspect the shape is post-Harris, although  the cross prunt was used while he was there.

chopin-liszt:
This looks to me to be the more "standard" post-Harris style of carafe in shape. The Maltese Cross prunt mark was used while he was there, but also afterwards. Carafes were made when he was still there, but these often come much taller and more elongated than this, or with a larger, more bell-shaped bottom part, or smaller and slimmer, without pronounced shoulders. I have no idea when, or even if, they stopped being produced though.
Lovely markings in this one, I agree!

glassobsessed:
Thanks for adding the extra info Sue. :angel:

John

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