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

[chopin-liszt]

 
I suspect it is more of an annealing "feature" than deliberate design.

[glassobsessed]

Relatively few of these mustard colour MDG items seem to crop up, perhaps they were less popular at the time. Your photos with flash show up that internal pattern really well - it can be difficult to make out, a potentially useful aid for identification?

John

[Baked_Beans]

Ahhh, so as it cooled down it turned into the " leaning tower of Pisa  " and was sold as a 'designer carafe' or as a second  ? judging by the weight ,  and slightly ..... monstrous appearance ..... ,  I would say  a second.. or more likely  an apprentice piece,  but a pretty good one ! 

This link below , has to be the best example seen here so far ....surely ? .....(as mentioned above )...


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


Ta very muchly , Mike 

P.S Thanks John got your message whilst posting this !

[chopin-liszt]

I got one of them!
But I also have a small squat round pot with the same jaggedy lines in it, in amber, it would match your bottle.
(Battutto style base with ground round pontil mark.)

[Baked_Beans]

Ohh goodness me , that really is the bees-knees ! It's even got the grid pattern going on 

Thanks for showing it Sue !

Ta , Mike

[WhatHo!]

Rosies pic, Peter Elliotts stock, http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks Wolfie that was the thread I was thinking about and thanks too Rosie for taking the lovely photo and sharing it on the GMB

There is a better link to the photo here.....

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pid=16047&fullsize=1

You can just make out the MDG label on the yellow bottle next to the MDG green bottle , also with label.

Cheers , Mike

[chopin-liszt]

Ah, I recognise the photo of that stand now.
I have the very small labelled green cloudy stoppered bottle and the green lollipop beside it.

[Baked_Beans]

It's really good to take photos at these events ....very useful for research purposes !

I love the green bottle and the yellow attenuated one

This MDG vase came today , amber with the same sort of decoration effect as the bottle which started this thread....not very well made as the rim is off-center and a bit wonky ...another apprentice piece. There is no ground pontil just a slightly matte base with plenty of 'battuto'.

It's 9.5 cm tall , last photo taken with flash.

This MDG art glass certainly varies in quality depending on who made it !

 

[Lustrousstone]

Almost all MDG is wonky, so I don't think you can really say apprentice piece just very variable quality.