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Lump'o'glass or "Medina"?? please read on... ID = Mdina

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Lustrousstone:
Medina, Modina, Madina and even Molina are common typos, even at auction houses, for Mdina. Medina is in Saudi Arabia and has no glass industry to my knowledge.

chopin-liszt:
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Wonderful piece - Rosenthal is right. They weren't all signed - I have two of these, bought a very long time ago, they are quite scarce, neither of mine are signed. I call these "sweetie jars" - they're nearly the size of the bottles in old-fashioned sweetie shops!
Mine are actually different heights to each other, and the stoppers are not interchangable, which is a shame as I'd like to swap them around - the patterns would match better!

The round polished pontil mark is indicative of the period when both Michael Harris and the Boffos were working there, quite apart from the fact that I do not belive these enormous beast were made after Michael Harris left.

I have seen a couple of these enormous beasts in the Ming pattern too.

"Medina" means "old town". In many cities with Moorish heritage, the old part of the town/city is known as "the Medina".

So the answer is Yes, it's a wonderful early ('67 - '71) piece of Mdina, Michael Harris design, quite possibly made by him. I also would think it might be a little after '67, as it was late '67 when Mdina was set up, getting around to something like this may not have happened immediately!

Andy:
Absolutely 100% Mdina  ;D Nice early colours c 1970.
Nice one
Andy

carolglass:
Yahoo!! Many, many thanks for all the input- it is a little battered about, that halo on the stopper being the biggest fault- I have  had a check and no signature and next to no wear on the base. Lolly jar sounds good to me! regards Carol

glassobsessed:
There is a River Medina too, on the Isle of Wight. It flows northwards and runs into the estuary that lies between Newport and Cowes. According to Wikipedia "The name Medina came from the Anglo Saxon Meðune = "the middle one", but the Medina in Arabia may have influenced its modern spelling."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Medina



Nice glass too. ;D

John

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