Topic: Mdina maybe MDG Whale?

[chopin-liszt]

Frankly, I reckon your opinion is of considerably more value than mine on this, Wolfie!

Looking at Said's later work though, he doesn't achieve this sort of delicacy in the colouring, I can't imagine he was able to be this skillful even earlier on.

BUT, I know nothing about animals or fishies. My big Boffo interest is the green MDG glassware.  (or unusual colour combinations, such as blue cased Earthtones or green and blue "Ming").

If it was made at Mdina, could it be Ettore's work rather than Vicente's, Wolfie?

Do you know if their work can be distinguished from each other's?

[chriscooper]

Firstly it's not a fish it's a whale/dolphin they don't have scales they have skin and don't therefore have big flouncy frilly fins the eyes and the blowhole have been made with a pipe.

If I was a Murano master wanting to teach 'boys' in their lunch break out make an animal I too would probably have a 'classic' Murano figure. I think the scar would have been polished and flattened to copy that style and of course give the impression it was leaping out of the water.

Not good enough to have been made by 'Bofffo' I have put a photo of another 'known' fish with similar colouring that is not exactly the finest executed piece I have ever seen either also a fairly well executed Bofffo penguin he made at W/f opposed to another lighting amber he 'allegedly' made at W/f too? along side 2 other equally poor examples from MDG which quite frankly I could have made in my lunch break?

So based on that theory one could easily argue they the W/f with the lovely long well executed beak and wings surely could not have been made by the same hand as those other 3

[Nemmie]

Also similar to Murano whales in the same way that the fish is similar to Murano fishes.

Not surprising considering where the Boffos learnt their craft.

I think most people are happy that this piece was most likely created with the involvement of Boffo.

[rosieposie]

I am with Nemmie on this one.

The consensus is that this IS a Boffo Whale, a beautifully executed piece and an exciting find.

[vidrioguapo]

And I am with Nemmie and Rosie on this - at first I thought not Boffo because of the lack of frilly crimped fins, but then  when I realised it is a WHALE, of course I looked again.  Sorry I doubted you at first Chris.  Forgiven?

It looks beautiful and very Whale like.  And the colours are stunning. Certainly Boffo was diverse in his glass making as we have seen from the various very different shapes of his glass Penguins.  The Penguin made whilst he was at Whitefriars is very Penguin like, but the small ones made elsewhere are almost cartoon like in my opinion.

Friggers or one offs are always subject to heated discussions, and as many have done on Whitefriars.com, much of the time it has been down to "instinct". 

[KevinH]

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