Topic: Free form glass sculpture help please.

[brucebanner]

Another recent find, very unusual shape and form, i'm not sure if this an end of day bit of glass or if it's mean't to be like this, how old it is or who its by.

It's 7 1/2 inches in height with no wear to the base.

[glassobsessed]

Mdina and Alum Bay are two possibilities for trailed sculptures but I suspect this one is from Mtarfa.

John

[chopin-liszt]

Mtarfa to my eyes, rather than Alum Bay. I have seen a few of these sorts of gate-stile sculptures, (not a spelling mistake; stile is the structure I use to describe them) with the Mtarfa mark on the bottom. The big moulded base part is not something I've seen before, but the top part and the colours used are quite distinctive, as is the sort of finish (or lack of it) on the base. 

[petet63]

Looks like a figure sat with arms around the knees.

[chopin-liszt]

You clearly have a very good imagination! 

[brucebanner]

Thanks for your help guys, i thought the same as Pete it looks likes a person holding something.

[chopin-liszt]

It's an abstract.

[bat20]

I'm getting Darth Vader and the Alien's love child

[Frank]

Loosely based on Matisse.

[chopin-liszt]

Really?
I suspected it was Picasso's influence rather than that of Matisse.

(but I'd better not confess my grounds for that )