Topic: Mystery Maltese Glass - Mdina/Michael Harris?

[goyjus]

Sure, no worries Greg. Been a bit of a hectic few days work-wise. But will post on a new thread asap.

Have a link to a photo on my flickr account in the meantime - but it's not a great picture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64422401@N06/5871004090/in/set-72157626922047879
 

[Greg.]

Thanks

 

[chopin-liszt]

 :cry:
My pics didn't come out showing all the different shades of blue.
I could see them all, sitting there on top of the washing machine - but the camera clearly couldn't.
The thing even had the cheek to flash unexpectedly at me, but it didn't improve any colour definitions.

[goyjus]

No worries Sue! I fight an ongoing losing battle with technology - and inanimate objects in general - myself. So I can totally empathise!

[BRADBURY7308]

 mdina piece here has some similar traits in terms of colour hope im ok to post a picture here purely for comparison this is an odd sort of vase, but not quite the same as the above inside out vase colour?? :ho:

[chopin-liszt]

Wow - a real-cobalt-almost-inside-out.  :thup:
We know of one other almost-inside-out - this shape - but it's not cobalt.

That's another very scarce early piece!

[suzygpr]

Shots of my two Almost Inside Out vases.









Suzy xxx

[BRADBURY7308]

wow Sorry to go off the subject but are these almost inside outs just inside outs that havent quite worked?
Do your two have pontil's underneath?

[suzygpr]

The shape of the body seems to be unique to this style of vase, together with the slighty raised rim.  The oval shape doesn't seem to be used in the Inside Out vases.

The one on the right of the shots has a rough ground concave base, with the remnant of a pontil scar.  The other has a polished concave base but a cruder finish to the rim.  The maltese cross prunt on the right hand vase is made with glass the same blue as the body of the vase,  The left one has a clear prunt.

Suzy xxx

[chopin-liszt]

I didn't know you had two, Suzy!  :spls: That makes three known, then. (Are either cobalt?)

 :hi: Bradbury (my bugbear here)  - A pontil is the iron rod the glass is worked on - when it is broken off, it leaves a pontil mark.

We can only assume these "almost-inside-outs" were early experimental pieces.