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Title: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on May 29, 2012, 06:52:22 PM

Clould this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Glass Studio vase.

To me its got the Mdina look but with gold and silver so may date to the late 1970s.

Pontil mark and I think a ground base

Height 7.25" or 18.5cm

Weight 680gm

Thanks for any help

Roy

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: glassobsessed on May 29, 2012, 08:32:09 PM

I don't think so Roy at least not a catalogued design, although the decor does look a bit like aurene crossed with azurene.... :-X

Something about it is ringing a Phoenician bell though, so perhaps Maltese.

John

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on May 29, 2012, 09:08:46 PM

Thanks John

You may well be right but the seller was trying to tell me that his friend new the person who made the vase and that it was in the 1970's in a English glass factory.

I have the sellers card and will see  him again in a couple of weeks while he told me he would speak to his friend and try and find out more if possible.

I will wait and see .

Thanks again Roy

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 30, 2012, 08:37:44 AM

It's Mtarfa. I have a marked piece.

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on May 31, 2012, 07:38:17 PM

Thank you very much Sue for the ID

Roy

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 01, 2012, 10:50:27 AM

Sorry, Roy, I should have explained why!

This is a very distinctive set of colours - the cobalt blue inner layer with frothy, lighter patches which I think are produced using silver chloride, much like the frothy backgrounds in some Mdina, then the piece has been decorated with a clear strapping with splodges of a lime-green on it, before being cased in clear.

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 01, 2012, 02:55:09 PM

pics

Title: Re: Could this be an early Michael Harris Isle of Wight Studio vase
Post by: mhgcgolfclub on June 02, 2012, 08:36:17 PM

Thanks Sue

For taking the time to explain the ID and for adding the pictures.

I love the colours and the shape of the vase .

Thanks again Roy