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Title: Free form glass sculpture help please.
Post by: brucebanner on July 23, 2014, 09:26:34 PM: Another recent find, very unusual shape and form, i'm not sure if this an end of day bit of glass or if it's mean't to be like this, how old it is or who its by.

It's 7 1/2 inches in height with no wear to the base.
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Post by: glassobsessed on July 24, 2014, 08:31:59 AM: Mdina and Alum Bay are two possibilities for trailed sculptures but I suspect this one is from Mtarfa.

John
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Post by: chopin-liszt on July 24, 2014, 10:58:03 AM: Mtarfa to my eyes, rather than Alum Bay. I have seen a few of these sorts of gate-stile sculptures, (not a spelling mistake; stile is the structure I use to describe them) with the Mtarfa mark on the bottom. The big moulded base part is not something I've seen before, but the top part and the colours used are quite distinctive, as is the sort of finish (or lack of it) on the base. :)
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Post by: petet63 on July 24, 2014, 02:06:12 PM: Looks like a figure sat with arms around the knees.
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Post by: chopin-liszt on July 24, 2014, 02:46:17 PM: You clearly have a very good imagination! ;D
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Post by: brucebanner on July 24, 2014, 04:49:19 PM: Thanks for your help guys, i thought the same as Pete it looks likes a person holding something.
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Post by: chopin-liszt on July 24, 2014, 05:40:03 PM: It's an abstract. 8)
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Post by: bat20 on July 24, 2014, 05:43:55 PM: I'm getting Darth Vader and the Alien's love child ;)
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Post by: Frank on July 26, 2014, 05:32:14 PM: Loosely based on Matisse.
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Post by: chopin-liszt on July 26, 2014, 06:12:10 PM: Really?
I suspected it was Picasso's influence rather than that of Matisse.

(but I'd better not confess my grounds for that ;) )
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Post by: Frank on July 29, 2014, 11:36:24 AM: I guess we each rely on association with a familiar image of the artists.
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Post by: chopin-liszt on July 29, 2014, 11:56:18 AM: Not really, Frank. I don't like Picasso, (apart from some of the early blue period stuff) but I do like Matisse. ;)