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Greg.:
Just to add, Mark Hill briefly refers to the initial use of colour at Mdina on pages 21 & 22 of his book.  ''The colour of a piece was also dependant on how much colourant had been added to the batch initially, and some colours such as amethyst purple or cobalt blue in its unmodified form were only used as final colours for a short period of time in the first year of production.''

I would imagine this information is likely to have come from the Harris family.

glassobsessed:
Wolfie, give us some examples of this dark blue. Relying solely on memories that are more than forty years old will not be 100% reliable. That is the nature of human memory.

WhatHo!:
Hi John, do you mean pics of pieces made in Dark Blue? if so I cant because I don't know what pieces are made in this colour. If Jim says they used a pot of dark blue when he was there then they did, i have no doubt about that. The private convos ive had and the detail Jim goes into about the processes he used he would not get something basic like that wrong IMHO.
i think very likely what Sue is taking about is an example of this Dark Blue.
Are you of the opinion that they only had 1 blue during Jims period there?

glassobsessed:

--- Quote from: WhatHo! on January 24, 2017, 05:27:56 PM ---Are you of the opinion that they only had 1 blue during Jims period there?

--- End quote ---
No, would not surprise me at all, various shades of blue crop up over the years and the addition of silver nitrate can have all sorts of further effects. However, none of the subsequent blues appear to be the same as the cobalt blue used in the trails on this vase.

chopin-liszt:
I'm positive most of the the cobalt bits we know of, are all pre-'71, when Michael Harris left and Jim arrived.
Marlene Bristow confirmed that my tricorn charger is by Harris, she remembered it.
I know John has a small cobalt piece by Harris, which came from Elizabeth's own collection of his work.
We do know, for certain, that Michael Harris worked from the cobalt pot.

Was there a period of overlap, with Jim being there before Harris left?
I am completely unconvinced that any post-Harris "dark blue" is related to the one cobalt pot of legend. :)

John's just posted a pic of the bit from Elizabeth's collection. ;D

There are just a lot of different shades of blue that appear, later on; some are really quite deep.

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