Topic: square to round mdina?

[essi]

Bought this recently, thinking it might be mdina. Is it right and where does it fit in to the mdina timeline.
Any help appreciated.
Tim

[glassobsessed]

Yes Mdina, a small textured vase, in terms of date around 1971 give or take a couple of years.

Is there a polished pontil mark on the base?

John

[Nemmie]

Yes there is, I can see it on photo 3

[essi]

Thanks for the feedback, I'm afraid its my poor camera skills john. It is a polished pontil about 40mm dia.
Don't see so many of these on google images, were they a short production run? .
Looks like a nice hand crafted item of glass.
Tim

[Lustrousstone]

I have one marked by Michael Harris, though mine is smoother at the top than yours http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1357

[chopin-liszt]

I wouldn't consider these to be any part of any "production run". They're early, from the period while Harris  and Vicente Boffo were still there, (polished round pontil marks are only found during the period Boffo was there, and are still fairly scarce).
These were being made while everything was fairly experimental, before there were any sort of official "production runs".

While the base part is made in a mould, the top is always hand finished, so can be of a completely different shape to the rest of the body - each one is unique.
They were made after Harris left, but not for terribly long.

[glassobsessed]

I would disagree with that, anything that is made for several years I would consider standard production (and nothing wrong with that) presumably they could be ordered by suppliers from a catalogue.

[chopin-liszt]

 
Standard production yes, but not really a sort of properly organised "run". They were made, and then they weren't, probably because they took too much time and expertise to make.
Nothing there was really that organised, was what I was trying to get at.

As Tim said, "production run", I assumed he was assuming "a set of organised designs laid out and so many of each are to be made" sort of thing as it was in wfs or standard runs of things at Orrefors with numbering and so on.

[glassobsessed]

We are splitting hairs.

It must have been well organised or the venture would have failed quickly, orders would not have been fulfilled, hot glass is potentially dangerous too...

[chopin-liszt]

I suppose I am.
But "production run" is not an expression I'd ever use in association with Mdina, while I would with many other factories.