Topic: Early Mdina?

[spencerline]

This  Label was only put on in the 80s but for me the later bottle is the best example of these bottles having the shorter body and in comparison exteremly long straight neck, better than all the earlier bottles ive seen. You are correct of course about the pontil mark on the bottles but the other glass produced in the 80s had the bases ground and polished.

I suppose as a collector I should be looking for a Seaward design in a  37cm size as the smaller bottles sold less. But for skill and aesthetically pleasing to me I like the 80s bottle on ebay, what to do? lol

[glassobsessed]

There is an attenuated bottle that looks just like Tortoiseshell in a local antiques center, the base is polished flat and the body is round like a cylinder. It was made at Mdina, IoW tortoiseshell is very similar to Mdina's earthtone colourway - not surprising as they were both developed by Michael Harris.

The seller is convinced because of the creamy brown colours that it is IoW not Mdina, odd really because I bought both my IoW attenuated bottles in tortoiseshell from him and they differ dramatically.

For me, gently sloping long shoulders are desirable, like this one: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyIsleOfWightStudioGlass#5484549765600200162
but for the shorter variations I love the 'club' shape: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/EarlyIsleOfWightStudioGlass#5511635700408967090

John

[spencerline]

Hi John, they are both super examples of the IOW bottles  are they yours? Kev

[glassobsessed]

They are indeed.

The Aurene bottle is signed "IOW glass England", so it was once one of the Studio's archive pieces.