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Offline Greg.

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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2015, 08:36:01 PM »
Its Mtarfa Chris, here's a signed example:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331488607452
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2015, 11:12:53 PM »
Cheers Greg
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015, 01:43:01 AM »
Whilst at the glass Fair, I did see a make I have never seen before that Terry Martin showed me, called Midsummer Glass, and this had very similar colourings and markings to your lovely vase Chris.  Is it worth considering this whilst we investigate it because it seems that it was never signed and Mtarfa usually is.... just a thought, and I'll investigate it more if you would like me to.
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2015, 07:31:00 AM »
Midsummer was not never signed. A lot of the vases had sun prunts and they used labels too. The paperweights have rough ground bottoms, but I don't know if that is true of unprunted vases.
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2015, 11:47:23 AM »
You are quite correct Christine, the ones I saw were, as you describe, rough based and unmarked, but I have since found examples of some that were labelled, although have not yet been lucky enough to see one with a sun prunt,  still got that pleasure to look forward to.

On looking again at the vase, in the full daylight and not in the early hours of the morning(!) I agree it does seem to be either Mtarfa or Phoenician Glass, but without a label, I'm not sure how happy I am to commit to a definite studio.... I will have to leave it to those of you with more experience of Maltese glass than I have. :)  But I will follow with interest, as I still have so much to learn about  Maltese glass.
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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2015, 12:04:15 PM »
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2015, 12:21:34 PM »
That is a beautiful vase Christine,  but quite unlike the pieces I saw at the Fair on Sunday... they were, for all the world like Ditchfield pieces, so much so that had it not been for Terry's very full explanation of the Midsummer Company, I would have assumed they were early Ditchfield.

All that aside, I feel I have in trying to help, hijacked (albeit inadvertently) Chris's question.... apologies Chris.
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Re: Iridescent trailed vase
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2015, 03:58:38 PM »
No worries Rosie I have listed it tonight I will add a ? to the end


Chris :)
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