Topic: Mdina faceted cube vase - Dobson? signature

[orangeglass]

Hi,
Sorry for the bad pics - only had my phone!
Cube shape vase approx 7" high, faceted on each side, signed on the base "Mdina glass 1975" and a signature - it looks similar to the one on Sue's in a previous post  - can anyone confirm if they think it says E Dobson?
Read all the other posts but just got confused - I'm not very good at reading signatures!
Is this a fairly common shape? Is there a name for the colourway/decor?

many thanks

[chopin-liszt]

I can't see it at all. Could you try rubbing a little talcum powder over the marks to bring them up for the pic. ?

It looks as if it is almost purely amethyst and yellow inside - no blues at all? Is that correct? That would be unusual.

I'm not sure that what I can see of your mark isn't the same as the completely unknown mark I have - on one of these cube vases and also on a large Ming Globe.

My cube vase with that weird mark is one of my favourites - the neck is very long and elegant - and the "ribbons" inside are very tight, it's not dissimilar to yours. 

[glassobsessed]

Some cubes are in named colourways but not all. Sorry can't tell from the photos what colour this one is.

These signatures can be difficult to tell apart at the best of times, Sue has a better grasp of this than I have, she also has enough of these cubes to sink a battleship with.

John

[orangeglass]

it does have blue in it - looks much better in real life than (terrible) photos!

[chopin-liszt]

Only a toy battleship. I think I've got ~ 7 or 8.
I swapped one for a green tricorn MDG bowl.
They do come in "Tiger" as well as with ribbons of coloured glass doused in silver chloride, some have crizzling, some don't. I do have an "Earthtones" one, in Boffo's hand, but I don't know if it's Mdina or MDG.

The ones with the silver chloride doused ribbons in them are basically the same construction as the big lollipops, just not all flattened out on the marver.

This is an image of my favourite one - the one I think is most like Roberta's.
And an image of the pawmark on the Ming globe (the one I think yours might be. Lots of loops followed by a squiggly long line)

(yes, they are a nightmare to try to capture on camera!)

[orangeglass]

Yes, that's the one I thought it was most like,  I thought (mine) looked like an E with a D sort of over and around it, followed by a squiggle which could be "obson"!!!

[chopin-liszt]

We are busily cross-posting! 

Nobody knows who may have been responsible for the loopy mark with the long squiggle. It is neither Dobson nor Said. I've asked Ron Wheeler, and he is clueless.
This would be only the third time I've seen it and I have the only two others.

Now, the blue in yours looks like cobalt blue.

edited to add; But oh no. It's not. It's the later, jewell-like blue. It could not possibly be cobalt in a '75 piece!

[orangeglass]

But it's dated 1975 - hadn't MH gone then?

[chopin-liszt]

Yes. It must be the later "jewell-like" blue, then. Doh.
This is what happens when you have to use photos!

I shall modify my last post. Sorry if it then makes your comment look a bit daft, but I don't want any notion of the even dafter thing I said first, getting out anywhere.