Topic: Early Mdina Bowl

[Greg.]

Hi,

Thought this piece deserved a quick dusting off and a few photos.

Inverted lip bowl with clear glass casing, measures just under 8 inches diameter.

Colours and quality are sublime!

Enjoy.

Greg

[chopin-liszt]

   ebay, not too long ago, lousy pic?

nice one!  :thup:

[glassobsessed]

These are quite unusual......

Nice photos. :mrgreen:

John

[chopin-liszt]

I was curious about the strange hole in the bottom on the ebay pic, it doesn't show as a hole in your image - can you say what exactly it is, Greg?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180664471082&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[Greg.]

Thanks for your comments.

The hole is pretty much the same Sue, I think its just the angle of the photo I have taken. It quite small around 5mm wide and 3mm deep, it looks like it has been polished. Fairly sure its from production, however, haven't seen anything similar before.

One of my current favorite pieces of Mdina. Don't know if you can see from the photos its also got a concentric ring of internal elongated bubbles around the top rim.

[chopin-liszt]

Oh yes, we know it has that line of bubbles!

I've got a couple of bits with strange holes in their bases - an obelisk somebody has tried to stick onto something, I think, and another bit, where somebody has actually managed to make the hole go right through the bottom.

Owner-instigated phenomenon, I suspect, Greg. Some owners perhaps make a neater hole than others.

It's a wonderful bowl, though - really early thing. Well done nabbing it!  :smg:

[Lustrousstone]

It might be where the pontil rod snapped off badly and there wasn't enough glass to get rid of all the mark, so they tidied the hole instead.

[flying free]

that's really beautiful!   :hiclp:
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[chopin-liszt]

There are quite often crescent shaped "holes" which are the result of a snapping-off which has gone a bit deep - normally in the middle of an otherwise flat polished base - they don't seem to need "tidied up".

I think a round hole appearing however, might be a little bit beyond the realms of practical physics.
I don't think it matters one bit, Greg. It's gorgeous, early and scarce, imperfections are completely forgivable - especially on the base where they don't show. I was just being nosey.
 :smg: