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Title: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 18, 2019, 02:31:19 PM

5 inches across, 1.25 high  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 18, 2019, 03:40:25 PM

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.

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 18, 2019, 05:25:01 PM

Thanks Sue, it is rather nice  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: flying free on April 19, 2019, 03:58:55 PM

ooh that is a totally fabulous colour!

m

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 19, 2019, 05:26:50 PM

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

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: flying free on April 19, 2019, 07:03:23 PM

 :)  Head in other more pressing things at the moment, but some light glass research is always necessary to keep things straight  ;D
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).

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 19, 2019, 07:26:11 PM

I will keep an eye out for a bit of Monart in this colour for you.  ;D
(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.  :D

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.

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: flying free on April 19, 2019, 07:56:14 PM

 :-* 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  :o

m

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 20, 2019, 11:49:06 AM

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

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 20, 2019, 07:28:48 PM

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

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: millarart on April 20, 2019, 07:34:11 PM

lovely piece shape Y  colour code 185

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 20, 2019, 10:58:15 PM

Ta Gary  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: flying free on April 21, 2019, 01:33:22 PM

Oh Keith you're alright.  But if you ever do decide ...  ;D

Title: Re: Monart, 2nd piece !
Post by: keith on April 21, 2019, 04:23:46 PM

 ;D ;D