Topic: Huge Mdina piece controlled bubbles sculpture base

[chriscooper]

Saw this in a cabinet today it's huge about 13" didn't really give it a second glance thinking it was a modern piece? then noticed it had a paper label. and realised it had controlled bubbles something I cannot recall seeing before? the base reminds me of the big sculptures 
I didn't buy it at £100 but it's something I have seen nothing like before.

[chopin-liszt]

I'd have left it sitting on the shelf if it had been £1. 
I don't know how a paper label came to be on it. 
Maybe they found an old one or two lying around?

Something experimental by an apprentice?

[NMott]

Yuk. Leaving it was definitely the best decision, otherwise it would have been a very expensive label with an ugly lump of glass attached to it. 

[chopin-liszt]

The "colours" put it to the '80s at the earliest.

Is it a contender for the ugliest glass around competition?
It would give certain things I'm aware of, a run for the title!

[chriscooper]

Don't think I have ever seen a piece with controlled bubbles before ?
 

[chopin-liszt]

 I can't swear I haven't seen recent stuff with controlled bubbles (pwts possibly?), but as you know, I don't pay much attention to stuff that is later. It doesn't interest me artistically.

Also, I don't tend to pay much attention to controlled bubbles. Not since very early on in the gmb's history, when the secret of how they are done was revealed to Max - who, (like me) had assumed it was something horribly complex, getting each tiny bubble in, individually in the right place at the right size. How could they do that, when the heat was making the air expand?

Just sticking it in a mould was...

an incredibly big let down.

[glassobsessed]

Yes seen a few with controlled bubbles, this current range has them: https://www.mdinaglass.com.mt/eshop-online/vases-bowls/rough-seas.html

I wonder if it is signed or would they have been too embarrassed?

Need that devil emoticon back...

[chriscooper]

Will check on Monday if it's still there
Do you think it's new stock and the label's been added it's paper not plastic

[chopin-liszt]

For all I know, they could be using paper labels again, but I think it unlikely.
The plastic ones came in in the '90s, but I'm sure they would have used up any old stock. I really don't know why this monstrosity has a paper label on it.
Labels do get moved.

[chriscooper]

To be fair it looks like it belongs