Topic: Any Mdina fans out there?? Your opinion is valued on this item...

[suzygpr]

Totally agree with Sue - Fabulous, stunning,  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Suzy x

[Greg.]

Actually paid £110, although to be honest prob would have paid more, its in perfect condition, although I do have a constant anxiety that its going to get knocked over, as it wouldnt take much at all.

[chopin-liszt]

Put it somewhere safe then!
I paid £72 for one, (ebay) £175 for the other. (from Christina, Cambridge fair).
I think you got a quite a decent bargain there - I don't think the prices will be going down.....

Have you seen many of these Suzy? (I thought I was keeping mine as a surprise for you  )

[Lustrousstone]

Museum gel is what you need Greg. Gorgeous bottle  :mrgreen:

(Hmm, balanced, sounds like a justification or excuse for too much glass.)

[suzygpr]

I've not seen many as good as this one - and then only in photos!  There was a good one at the National (Gary Newsum's I think) which I went back to a few times, but some unusual IOW and a Mdina almost inside out vase had mugged me. Is this the same one, Greg?

[glassobsessed]

I can vouch for the museum gel, very useful - I have some securing my fish vases. One small pot will probably last decades, you only need to use tiny amounts of it.

Not saying anything about the bottle. :mrgreen:

John

[chopin-liszt]

Each one is unique, Christine....
I've been thinking somebody could base an amazing collection of Mdina around one shape alone - especially if they concentrated on something like this!

I've just clambered up a ladder and got mine down. They're both dated 1975, one is signed by Eric Dobson.
I have no way of substantiating this, but I have a personal suspicion this might be an Eric Dobson design - some of the two-tone stuff is absolutely fabulous, and matches these bottles, but some seems to be far simpler - and later, (mostly sort of "hat" shaped vases, with "helter-skelter" clear strapping around them.)
The fact that I've seen mid-'70s dates on them, all post-Harris, is all I have to go on, really.

[Greg.]

I've not seen many as good as this one - and then only in photos!  There was a good one at the National (Gary Newsum's I think) which I went back to a few times, but some unusual IOW and a Mdina almost inside out vase had mugged me. Is this the same one, Greg?

Suzy, just trying to think back, prob a different bottle to the one you saw at the National.

[Lustrousstone]

   

[chopin-liszt]

 
You know how it is, Christine.... I know you know.

However, it would appear we seem to have hijacked a Mdina thread started by carolglass..... again, I'm enthusiastic about discussing it, but feeling  as if we're leaving carol out... again!

Sorry. :fwr:

Maybe you're just an inspiration!