Topic: Blue trailed vase

[chopin-liszt]

Is this not a silver nitrate thing rather than silver chloride?
It is even the right reds under the brown made by the silver.
I could never really get over the worminess of it. Not after working in labs and peering down microscopes.
Spirochaetes, syphilis...

This was a good surprise, Michael. I am enjoying it immensely.

I did actually bring mine out of hiding recently, and I did decide it wasn't as dreadful as I first thought.
The base has a polished, but spread all over the place, pontil mark, on a flat base that,  when I look at it now, is slightly satinated.
18 years ago, I didn't know much about different bums on things and I was used to seeing various finshes on Mdina anyway.
This is quite a thrill, learning something new and having to unlearn something wrong.

[rocco]

Yes, probably should have said silver salts.
But your little mistake just shows how interesting early Ikora glass is...
Quite modern when compared to other ornamental glass from that period, particularly in its crudeness 

Here is my multicolor lamp, another favorite - much easier to identify as Ikora though.

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

Looking very like Crystal blue stripe. 
Those are the sorts of bits I've mistaken for being top Mdina before. Beautifully executed by a master maker.
I do strongly suspect Michael Harris must have been inspired by WMF.
He was aware of glassmaking from all over the place and had travelled to work at Rogaska in the early '60s.
As the old saying goes, "there is nothing new under the sun".
If it can be thought up now, it has probably been thought up before.
(Unless it's science, which builds itself on new and emerging information, obviously.)