Topic: Help identify signature/origin please

[lancep]

Hi All

I came this beautiful vase while clearing out my Aunts house. She has dementia and cant help identify the origin. There is a signature etched into the bottom and what appears to be digits but I have had no success in google searches of various guesses. My Aunt has taken a few trips to Europe so I assume it is from somewhere there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[NevB]

I think it's Mtarfa glass from Malta, Sue(M)/chopin-liszt will probably reply on this.

[lancep]

Thanks NevB, gives me another avenue to search.

Forgot to mention above, vase is 30cm high and 14cm wide.

Cheers

[chopin-liszt]

No way Mtarfa! Sorry Nev. 
I think this is probably Aussie Studio Glass. I'm not big on their names, but Brewster might well have a good idea.
It's a gorgeous piece. I can almost feel the expanses of burning outback and endless deep blue skies which inspired it.

[NevB]

Wrong again  , but it does amaze me that glassmakers produce such beautiful pieces and then put an indecipherable mark on.

[chopin-liszt]

  I could see where you were coming from with the colours Nev, but this is a bit better than Mtarfa.
There was also the matter of "undecipherable mark".
Trevor (Brewster) has managed to educate me a little bit about Aussie glass, but he's the chap who really knows about it. I'm very curious myself.

This is a link to the section on identified New Zealand and Australian glass, it might be well worth a browse here.
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/board,39.0.html

Browsing myself, I've found a link to images and marks, collated.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=857

[flying free]

It has some similarities to my eye with this one by Gerry Reilly - colours and applied foot etc but not entirely sure about the shape.  However might be worth exploring further.  His signature appears to be notoriously bad so I suppose that could explain differences in sig?
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,67284.msg375133.html#msg375133

[chopin-liszt]

I think this should link to an image of gerry riley's mark.

I found a page of sigs and pics, clicked to modify my post, but forgot to click save.
It should be there now. I found this in it.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?album=857&pos=29

eta again. 
I found a link to Trevor's blog on Aussie glass in your link, m. That might help too.
http://australianglass.blogspot.com/

[flying free]

mm, similar type applied foot on that piece - also 'landscape 'y' in design and I do think it's possible the sig 'could' read G Reilly ?

[lancep]

Thanks so much for your help. I am really enjoying the learning experience, its amazing what you can find out when you go looking.