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Author Topic: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?  (Read 818 times)

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Offline chriscooper

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Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« on: June 28, 2011, 06:13:56 PM »
https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/HeartShapedMdinaTigerBowl

Not seen this shape before, stunning little bowl that looks completely different depending which angle you view it from. Some sort of signature initials? below the Mdina script.
I know Eric Dobson designed the Tiger pattern but didn't he usually sign in full?
Maybe it's just a squiggle :-[

Chris

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Re: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 07:29:40 PM »
That is the modern interpretation of Tiger, several decades after Dobson left. In the last 10 years or so Mdina have been adding squiggles and also dates like that. Squiggles because they always seem to be impenetrable.

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Re: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 10:41:48 PM »
Possibly a date? Mdina 01?

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Re: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2011, 11:00:43 AM »
I believe you are correct, m.  :thup:

(and John, of course!)
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Re: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2011, 03:35:12 PM »
Still in denial m thought it was a nice piece, unusual shape early colours and initialled  :pb:
Maybe I will get over it eventually, not having much luck with the Mdina/Murano pieces lately though to cheer me up I have  2 mega rare uncatalogued Whitefriars pieces on the way across the pond as we speak.
Chris :sun:

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Re: Unusual heart shaped Mdina Tiger bowl initialled?
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2011, 03:46:04 PM »
Chris it is still a stunning bowl.  Hang on to it...put it away for a rainy day. 
and oooh how exciting about the Whitefriars pieces  :hiclp:
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