Topic: Blue trailed vase

[Baked_Beans]

I took a few photos at the IOW glass museum during my recent visit . The first two photos are early Mdina , the second two are early IOW showing some nice spiral designs as you mentioned Sue 

[chopin-liszt]

So that's where that Tortoiseshell charger ended up. 

However, early IoWSG can show similarities to Mdina tortoiseshell.
first is IoWSG, with a very squished flame pontil mark, the second is Mdina.
But they're not strapped, so I'm getting off topic. It just helps to illustrate the transition between the different islands.

[glassobsessed]

Revisiting wiggles and swirls...

John

[chopin-liszt]

Thanks, John. Loads of random stuff looking great there.
Here's something with squiggles. To add to the swirls and wiggles.
And a charger, signed by MH, much more in keeping with John's, but a different lot of colours.
Then a large Verdala bowl, where the trailing has mostly gone round and round, not much random there.

[Baked_Beans]

Great set of photos !

I must make a correction to mine ...this is by Pauline Solven , Glasshouse, dated 1970...sorry for the error  !

Scroll down here for details......

http://www.isleofwightglassmuseum.org.uk/

[chopin-liszt]

I did think it looked a little odd for Mdina or IoWSG!
Here are two bell vases, in the pattern I call seaweed, one with fabby strapping in it, the other not so good.
And a cobalt Chinese bowl, to show the execution of the strapping on that.
Followed by three more Chinese bowls. It's not always the same.
I'll put the next two in the next post, they're better compared with each other, being the same colour, but different heights.

[chopin-liszt]

last two.

[rocco]

I came across this thread looking for something else...
The "squiggles" bowl Sue has shown above is NOT Mdina but WMF Ikora glass 
I have the same, one of my favorite Ikora pieces. Pictured in the 1928 catalogue in the Ikora book, PN 32/1589.

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

 
You got me doing a John MacEnroe impersonation there!
You cannot be serious, really?
It screams "Mdina" at me, it always has.  I got it donkey's years ago and haven't paid much attention to it, thinking it rather ugly. I've even entered it into an early "ugly glass competition" we had here.
Good job we don't all like the same things, isn't it?
It's got the right feel the right colours, made the right way...
Mind you, I have mistaken good WMF for Mdina before and I found this about 18
years ago and shoved it away out of sight.

Thank-you so much for the correction. It is very much appreciated.

[rocco]

Sue, glad I could surprise you
And I agree, good that we don't all like the same things.
I am really fond of mine (though pics don't really do it justice) - the silver chlorides are the main decoration, giving very different looks depending where the light comes from, similar to many Mdina pieces...

Michael