Topic: I think Mdina but no marks - can anyone help

[seanduxbury]

Hi.  Picked this piece up recently in the North West of England with the instant thought it was a Mdina perfume bottle.  However unless you wanted to drown yourself in perfume (the opening at the top is 2 cm in diameter) I can't believe that it is one.  Also as the 'stopper' has a sheer polished base it just sits on top of the bottle and wouldn't stop any liquid spilling out.  The colours seem right but can anyone explain what it is.  A posy vase with a top?  It measures 8 cm tall x about 7 cm square (without stopper) and weighs just over 725 gms.  Sheer polished base for the body.  The top measures about 4.5 cm tall and 5 cm in diameter and weighs 215 gms.  Can anyone help with telling me what it is (bottle, vase?) and maybe have an idea to date.  Thanks

[chopin-liszt]

Definitely Mdina. 
And a sort of perfume bottle, or just a small bottle.
Studio glass does not need to have any function or have to be anything.

Stoppers for bottles were sold seperately in the shop earlier on, none fit properly, but yours looks almost like a small paperweight, balanced on top to look like a stopper. Smart use of a pwt!
Normally, stoppers would have a sort of post of glass on the bottom of them. But they do get broken. I've got a few that still sit on the bottle, finishing it off nicely and the lack of a post/stick-bit under it makes no difference.
I'd put this in the mid-'70s-ish to the mid-'80s-ish.

[glassobsessed]

Agreed, stopper is a paperweight.

John

[seanduxbury]

Two items for the price of one.  Never thought of that!

[chopin-liszt]

It works. 
The pwt is small enough, the colours match. 
I might put a small ring of blu-tack inbetween the pwt and the flange of the bottle, to help prevent it falling off and damanging something, if it was mine.

I swap stoppers around to find the best fits and matches for display.
If I'd had this bottle and that pwt, I'd have put them together too.