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Title: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 15, 2015, 08:06:02 PM

Any suggestions no label or signature can probably think of half a dozen who could have made it :(

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 15, 2015, 08:06:53 PM

Base :)

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: keith on February 15, 2015, 09:24:46 PM

Stuart Abelman maybe ?  ;D ;D

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: glassobsessed on February 15, 2015, 10:43:26 PM

Phoenician or Mtarfa maybe...

John

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 15, 2015, 10:47:01 PM

Considered that John but could not find anywhere they used the little coloured chips in the glass?

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: glassobsessed on February 15, 2015, 10:52:24 PM

Not sure Chris, just know I have seen one or maybe two before and Maltese sprang to mind.

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 16, 2015, 03:53:05 PM

My guts suspect Phoenician. I'm sure this is a shape of theirs as well as the appearance.

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Post by: Valsky on February 16, 2015, 03:59:58 PM

My immediate thought was Mtarfa or Phoenician. I'm not enough of an expert to give more detail but that seems to be the consensus forming.
Vx

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: glassobsessed on February 18, 2015, 01:07:02 PM

Another currently on ebay and apparently bought in Malta: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221692577613

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 18, 2015, 07:54:36 PM

We will go with Malta then ;)

cheers Chris

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: Greg. on February 24, 2015, 08:36:01 PM

Its Mtarfa Chris, here's a signed example:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331488607452

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 24, 2015, 11:12:53 PM

Cheers Greg

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: rosieposie on February 25, 2015, 01:43:01 AM

Whilst at the glass Fair, I did see a make I have never seen before that Terry Martin showed me, called Midsummer Glass, and this had very similar colourings and markings to your lovely vase Chris.  Is it worth considering this whilst we investigate it because it seems that it was never signed and Mtarfa usually is.... just a thought, and I'll investigate it more if you would like me to.

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 25, 2015, 07:31:00 AM

Midsummer was not never signed. A lot of the vases had sun prunts and they used labels too. The paperweights have rough ground bottoms, but I don't know if that is true of unprunted vases.

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: rosieposie on February 25, 2015, 11:47:23 AM

You are quite correct Christine, the ones I saw were, as you describe, rough based and unmarked, but I have since found examples of some that were labelled, although have not yet been lucky enough to see one with a sun prunt,  still got that pleasure to look forward to.

On looking again at the vase, in the full daylight and not in the early hours of the morning(!) I agree it does seem to be either Mtarfa or Phoenician Glass, but without a label, I'm not sure how happy I am to commit to a definite studio.... I will have to leave it to those of you with more experience of Maltese glass than I have. :)  But I will follow with interest, as I still have so much to learn about  Maltese glass.

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 25, 2015, 12:04:15 PM

A vase I sold a long while ago http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=158
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=159, other wise the photo might be better

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: rosieposie on February 25, 2015, 12:21:34 PM

That is a beautiful vase Christine,  but quite unlike the pieces I saw at the Fair on Sunday... they were, for all the world like Ditchfield pieces, so much so that had it not been for Terry's very full explanation of the Midsummer Company, I would have assumed they were early Ditchfield.

All that aside, I feel I have in trying to help, hijacked (albeit inadvertently) Chris's question.... apologies Chris.

Title: Re: Iridescent trailed vase
Post by: chriscooper on February 25, 2015, 03:58:38 PM

No worries Rosie I have listed it tonight I will add a ? to the end


Chris :)