Topic: Monart, 2nd piece !

[keith]

5 inches across, 1.25 high 

[chopin-liszt]

A big pin dish!
But not quite big enough for my Grandpa's needle. 
It's a really massive 6" curved one, for mending sails.

I really love the colour - a sort of blue-y purple or purple-y blue.
It hovers rather deliciously inbetween them.

[keith]

Thanks Sue, it is rather nice 

[flying free]

ooh that is a totally fabulous colour!

m

[keith]

Thanks M, how are you ? not 'spoken' in a while 

[flying free]

   Head in other more pressing things at the moment, but some light glass research is always necessary to keep things straight 
I absolutely love the colour of that bowl. I know you never sell but if you ever are thinking of it, do let me know.  Pleeease. I need it for my dining room (Russian colours based on a 19th century enamel plate and that colour fits right in nicely).

[chopin-liszt]

I will keep an eye out for a bit of Monart in this colour for you. 
(I'm not too sure there isn't a little Vasart trumpet posy with mica in it, somewhere nearby for ~£5. It's been gathering dust there for years.)

It's almost like a Rothko painting in it's intensity and the interest it inspires. 

I'm sure it must have something to do with brains not being able to quite decide what shade it truly is. A bit of "cognitive dissonance" can be really quite enjoyable.

[flying free]

  thank you!
Keith's isn't  the same blue, but his bowl does have that sumptuous quality of what is known as Yves Klein blue.

It's a kind of blue almost like a very early 1820s/30s French blue opaline called Bleu Lavande.  I have a piece - it's unbelievably gorgeous on the eye, truly amazing blue, but very difficult to photograph and capture the colour because of the rare way the metal was made I guess.  Hence I've never shown it on here because I just can't do the colour justice.  The peculiar intensity of the opaline colour, and the way it was made, is everything.  It's dichroic and turns red 

m

[chopin-liszt]

 
I want it. I adore anything dichroic as long as it is not neowotsit.

[keith]

Sorry M, it's only my second piece and Monart is so expensive, apart from this one ! the last vase I saw was £260.