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Two Mdina vases, further info appreciated :-)
chopin-liszt:
The script on your big blue strapped bottle is a fairly early script - though the "drilling from side-to-side" to form the letters is more mid- later '70s, Michael, and while the script on the side-stripe can be read as "Molina", it's an earlier interpretation of the "molina" way of writing it.... and the tons and tons of silver chloride used in it says more '70s than '80s to me...... if any of that makes sense!
Anik - John's showing off (and why not, John :kissy: if you've got a beautiful beast like that!) - that's a very, very scarce shape of Fish - with a "button" rim. They normally have a long tapered neck.
The features that make it a Fish are the big partial casings of "wings" on either side of a (normally) already cased lollipop shape, with thin strands of glass crossing over between the two "wings".
It represents looking at a Manta Ray from above. :thup:
glassobsessed:
Showing off? Surely not. ;D
The style of the Mdina signature on your bottle is what I think is found from the mid seventies probably well into the eighties. Whoever it was who did the signing must have signed thousands and thousands of items. The Mdina on your blue green vase is in the same hand (3rd photo).
The side stripe signature I think is later and by another distinctive 'hand', possibly eighties into the nineties. The dates are mostly guess work on my part though.
Anik, a simple rule of thumb: fish vases have those trails (well, very nearly always) and lollipop vases don't.
John
rocco:
Thanks, Sue and John!
It's nice to learn more about Mdina glass from you (even if it seems difficult to find out the production date for these post Harris pieces :))
BTW, only when taking the base pic I realized that in my side stripe vase the i is missing in the mark -- it says Mdna ;D
And yes, John's early fish vase is absolutely stunning -- in any light.
I have this tall "earthtones" vase which looks really beautifully translucent when backlit, but a little dull and opaque otherwise...
Michael
rocco:
And another nice Mdina vase for my collection! :)
Cylindrical vase, 20 cm high, tortoiseshell pattern with lots of streaky iridescence.
Again not very early I think, but quite unusual with the clear glass being greenish-yellow, and the brown mottling stopping in the lower third of the vase...
Michael
glassobsessed:
Very likely mid to late 70s, tortoiseshell looks fantastic in direct sunlight. The slightly raised 'foot' is a nice touch and I am not sure it is found much on later production.
That is the beginning of a proper collection....
John
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