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Title: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: bigbri on July 08, 2013, 09:53:08 AM

hello board.....
could i get a bit of advice on this vase.....ive gone through all the threads on the board but couldnt find a pic of a cut sided inside out vase with 4 cut sides unless im having a senior moment.....
i was thinking this piece was a poss harris inside out vase with 4 cut sides but im not so sure now.the blue is bluer in real life.
the vase measures 3" h x 4"w  ish and weighs 957g so heavy for it size a bit like me....no siganatures.
thanks in advance......

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: glassobsessed on July 08, 2013, 10:03:40 AM

I can see why it could be considered Mdina but I don't think they made it, no idea off hand who might have made it either, sorry.

John

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: bigbri on July 08, 2013, 10:06:51 AM

hi john.
thanks for that.its been puzzling me for a few days,im even more intrigued now if its not mdina.......

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 08, 2013, 11:12:36 AM

The stripey bits do not look as if they were coloured with silver nitrate, but are an opaque colour all on their own - where is the ambery "glow" coming from?
Is it an optical effect? opalesence? an amber casing somewhere?

There are facetted inside-out vases, early, Harris period beasts, but they're nothing like this.
Very nice thing though!

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: bigbri on July 08, 2013, 11:21:14 AM

hi sue...
i was waiting 4 your reply....
the amber colour is a cased layer around the inside of the inner bowl....if you look directly down there is the tiger stripe then the amber around .5 cm then the clear cased.....
its doing my head in that i cant find it....
cheers for help....
Bri.

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: NMott on July 08, 2013, 01:08:56 PM

Looks more like a Peter Layton vase than Harris/Mdina

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: bigbri on July 08, 2013, 01:21:56 PM

hi.
ive just been scanning layton pieces and i cannot see any cut sided pieces,,,,,,
any chance its chinese??

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: rocco on July 08, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

The cut sides do remind of those Chinese sommerso vases >> Link (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Muscadale/library/chinese%20glass?sort=3&page=1) (first two pics)
Yours is much nicer though with the Tiger stripe interior...

Michael

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: bigbri on July 08, 2013, 02:18:48 PM

hi.
scarily similar though,,,,,,

Title: Re: harris mdina inside out cut sided vase????
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 08, 2013, 02:55:44 PM

yup, I don't know whether to consider contemporary Chinese or contemporary Polish though.
I might opt towards the Polish side, given it is such a nice beast.
If I'd seen it in TKMaxx and I was in a position to wangle buying it without M finding out, I might well have brought it home and hidden it in the middle of somewhere.
(Can't see the trees for the wood principle.  ;) )