Topic: Possible MDG , large , amber, square shaped bottle / carafe with long neck.....

[Baked_Beans]

This amber bottle / carafe  is very heavy and 13 1/4 inches tall. It has a square cross section body with a long neck . The square dimensions are 11cm by 11cm approx..

It has a bent/wonky looking neck which may or may not be a deliberate feature 

The amber and decoration looks similar to this..........

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,42409.msg235656.html#msg235656

and another example here.........

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29332.0.html

There is no grinding to the inside at the top of the neck so it might not have had a stopper .

It's quite a monstrous beast of a thing !! Thanks for having a look. 
 

[Baked_Beans]

Here are a couple of photos taken with flash which shows the patterning effect better.......

[chopin-liszt]

 
I'd say; absolutely MDG, rather than "possibly".

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks very much for your comments Sue, I really hoped you would reply !

I've taken some downloads of MDG photos from here, (GMB) , so I hope it's o.k. to repeat them here....

The square shaped bottle in the background of your pic. may possibly be the same dimensions as this example   ?

Also there is a yellow stretched-neck bottle (attenuated )  , shown here, (photo from GMB....can't remember which thread !  ) which has a similar working to the enamel.

This bottle weighs a staggering 1.7 Kg , fill it with wine and it would be a problem to lift it 

What's going on with the neck 

Cheers, Mike

[chopin-liszt]

The first pic is one John took of my stuff when he was here, but there is no square shaped bottle at the back.
I don't know whose glass is in the second pic.

I've got a tall green attenuated bottle, with the grid pattern on it.

I thought at first there was no actual pattern in your bottle, that it was the more unusual cloudy swirling.
I have three cloudy small stoppered bottles - the blue, and the yellow in that pic, but I've got an amber one too. I don't think I've got a pic of that yet. I'll add it to my list.

[Baked_Beans]

Ahh, sorry , I thought the bottle to the left of the blue one (at the back)  was square  shaped !

It will be interesting to see if any other examples of this bottle pops-up    There is no grid pattern.

Cheers ,Mike

 

[chopin-liszt]

No, it's just a very large round one, in an Earthtones grid.
No big stopper for it.
I've got stoppers for my big green and blue ones.

[Baked_Beans]

You do have a smaller, square sharped, blue bottle , in the foreground, to the left, so I think square shapes were a definite design feature for MDG  ! I might try to fill it with water and see if I can lift it to my glass  !

Thanks Sue , very much ! Mike

[chopin-liszt]

There's a small blue and a small Earthtones in square profile there, at the front.
The Earthtones one has the MDG Maltese cross prunt mark (with the v-notches in the wings) impressed into the base.

[Baked_Beans]

Well I hope the dimensions for this bottle will help for future reference despite the wonky neck (possibly a design feature  )

Cheers, Mike