Topic: Mdina? bell, goblet shape bowl

[chriscooper]

Thought this was rather nice 3" high goblet shape? 4.5" across the rim could be an earlier piece?
Lots of tiny bubbles within the glass.

Chris

[chriscooper]

The base....

[glassobsessed]

Must be Mdina Chris, harder to say when though, the colours are nice and bright, lots of chloride so perhaps more 70s than 80s. Whenever I see this shape I think goblet with no stem, obviously not but I just can's shake it.

John

[chopin-liszt]

It's not any standard known shape, so could well haven been initially intended to be a chalice - however, the shape is closer to the later more straight sided chalice shape than the very early bell shaped ones...
(I've got one sitting beside me to compare.)

Loads and loads of lovely silver effects there, Chris - some fabby big ochrey-gold bubbles.

Another thought is that it might be a variation on a bowl shape - from the later '70s onwards, when they started putting a lot of flared rims on thngs - including cylninders.

[chriscooper]

The only one I have to compare is this one from 1976.
Did Boffo make goblets?

Chris

[chopin-liszt]

Yes, Boffo made goblets.
It is known that "Papa" (Vicente) Boffo put the big trails  - the massive coloured knops, around the stems of the big early bell-shaped chalices; an MDG labelled goblet the same shape as your Mdina goblet has turned up just this week here; and I have a large chalice with the early bell shaped bowl, minus a big coloured knop, and in the very manner of Earthtones executed by Boffo. I have no way of telling if this chalice is Mdina or MDG - but it is by Vicente Boffo. No marks at all.

However, I was studying the effects in your bowl, the cloudiness isn't typical of Boffo cloudiness - there even seems to be evidence of a mould perhaps being used on your bowl - the way the silver effects are in parallel upright lines? (in the second pic, they are quite clear, although faint)

But one fabby feature seems to be a swathe of clear glass which is amber coloured (from the silver) over the blue - do you get a lovely green colour where this happens, if you look under the right sort of lighting conditions?

[flying free]

It's lovely Chris - I though plant pot when I first saw the pics, but have just noted the size, so it's obviously not. 
Really super chloride effects on it.
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