Topic: Isle of Wight glass help please.

[brucebanner]

Are both of these meadow garden?, the one on the right has an iridescent  finish and a label.

The one on the left is 4 inches in height and 5 inches in diameter, the taller on the right is 5 1/2 inches in height 4 inches in diameter.

What age roughly would they be i'm thinking early 80's?.

Regards Chris.

[chopin-liszt]

Not Meadow Garden. I don't believe these are from any official range at all. I think these are early experimental things. The triangular black label puts the date between '78 and '90, but these are not of any formal shape or colour pattern that went into production.

At the studio, there was a shelf in the shop called "the makers' shelf", through which the glassmakers and apprentices could make and sell things they'd designed and made themselves. These might have been from that, or perhaps were trials made by the Michael, Tim or Jonathon themselves.

[brucebanner]

Thanks Sue my little little collection of iow is slowly growing, i have real trouble parting with it.

[chopin-liszt]

The one on the left does have a colour scheme similar to Pine Kyoto, but is not a Kyoto shape, does not have the applied green rim and does have a large, thick, loopy "painterly" (quite Sam Herman-y!) pink splodgy bit - not a feature of Kyoto.
Kyoto came into production in '82, what you have might be an experimental/developmental Kyoto. 

[brucebanner]

On the smaller one the melted glass does look like paint.