Topic: More Bubbly Monart - IG bowl

[orangeglass]

New Monart bowl - shape IG size IV - 12" diameter

I was wondering if this is the same colour scheme as Mr Millar's new vase -  or does yours have white in it Gary?

Lots of bubbles in clear glass with loads of gold aventurine, splashes of greens and orange - are these orange bits sort of broken up glass (giving the angular edges) rather than just coloured powdered glass marvered in?

[Gary]

Nice bowl in a superb colour scheme.
Does your bowl have any brown among the clear glass.
What literature have read would indicate that the orange bits in your bowl are shards of glass. I have no idea how the are so thin.
Gary

[orangeglass]

I don't think theres any brown in it - will have a look tomorrow in daylight but i think it's just gold aventurine.

Can't remember where I read the thing about blowing the glass then shattering it then gathering more and re-blowing it - was definitely something to do with Monart, but whether it applies to this or not I'm not sure, it's just that this orange seems to be in a few pieces I've seen and it always has angular edges and doesn't look to be applied in the same way as the other colours - can anyone shed any light on this?

[millarart]

nice bowl, not same as mines, mines has white and yellow aswell

[chopin-liszt]

Isle of Wight Studio Glass used to use blown shards to create the Seascape and Landscape pieces.

A gather was suitably coloured (in this case, with canes of various colours laid out on the marver to create stripes when gathered) then blown into a large shape, cooled and broken to make irregularly shaped shards, which were then picked up from the marver themselves, onto another gather.


That is how it's done and would have been, I presume, at Monart. There's a white lampshade covered in coloured shards hidden away in the vaults of Perth Museum.

[orangeglass]

Thanks Sue, I knew I hadn't imagined it!!!
Was it also used at Mdina - my little bottle/vase has a similar type of angular coloured bits.

[chopin-liszt]

I am not absolutely positive about that surface-decorated Mdina, but to get the angular shapes, I would suspect so.
That colourway is only ever found on very small pieces - almost miniatures, but because it's also decorated with silver salts, I'm actually clueless as to how it was achieved.

(my brain is determined to comment that this is a BIG bowl  )

[Gary]

Thanks for the explanation Sue.
Below is a photo of the lampshade from Perth museum.
Monart did use that technique in three (that I know of) different colour codes.
Gary

[orangeglass]

Big -yes !
Here is a picture of my other bowl - same shape and size - next to a little one just for comparison 

[orangeglass]

Maybe the orange worked particularly well for this technique!