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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: vampy1977 on September 17, 2014, 12:25:03 AM
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Hi,
I hope someone who knows about glass may be able to help please. I bought this little vase recently in a charity shop as i thought it was Mdina (i have a few pieces already) but its signed with a different name (the second word looks like glass) and all my google guesses are getting me nowhere.
Thanks in advance
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Phoenician Glass (another Malta operation). There is lots of online information.
Please show some photos of the whole item - just for the record.
Trevor
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I agree - it looks like "Phoenician Glass" ... but: it doesn't look like any Phoenician signature in my "signature collection" and I have never seen "Phoenician Glass" - always "Phoenician Malta".
I am not saying it's not Phoenician - just a word of caution :-X.
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here's a photo of the glass vase.
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...it doesn't look like any Phoenician signature in my "signature collection" and I have never seen "Phoenician Glass" - always "Phoenician Malta"...
See the third and fourth items on the website below. The signature in both cases is "Phoenician Glass Malta" - and the first of these also has a sticker saying "Phoenician Glass".
http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/maltese_glass/phoenician_glass.htm
I make no judgement on the appearance of the query item, nor whether its signing is within the variation expected - I just don't know the subject.
Trevor
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The object itself is very distinctly Phoenician. :)
When it comes to splodgy stuff, Phoenician very often has the splodges in two distinct harlequin "zones" like this, (either vertical or horizontal) while Mdina often has the splodging in a patch on the surface, or all over mixed up.