Topic: Mdina green button top vase.

[chopin-liszt]

I see what you mean about the base wear on the tricorn bowl. 
The colour is different to the green of the side stripe, but I'd not argue about the attribution. Is the glass itself clear? (rather than opaque).
I did find myself wondering if it came from a batch of bottle cullet glass they had that was simply a good bluey-green colour? 

I've got a small green MDG cut-ice lollipop, (uncut, just marvered into shape) and I've taken some pics to show the colour, because it's not all mixed up with other colours - there is some silver nitrate in it, it just doesn't interact with the clear green too much.
When I got it out for photographing it just now, I found the base is a little odd. One bit is it is the normal batutto style, but at an angle to that, there is a plain flat bit.
Honestly, really, properly flat. I've taken pics.

[glassobsessed]

That pattern I was wittering on about is present just not well defined...

[chopin-liszt]

  Yes. The true, clear green colour shows up through it very well, it's not all affected by the silver salts.
The shape (cut-ice lollipop) helps confirm that MDG did make several Mdina shapes too. And half its bottom is actually flat, not batutto-ed.
I have no doubts Andy's side stripe is Maltese and from the correct time period. 
I really want to get my mitts on it to see if it's a silver reaction with the hot clear casing over teal that gives rise to the green, it's perfectly possible, given the electric blue bit.
But it would be a very unusual way for the glass to have reacted and for it to be all over would make it really incredibly special.
The only other possibilty is that it's a hitherto unseen shape of MDG with a non-batutto-ed bottom.
Either would be very special indeed and it is one or t'other.

[Patrick]

The only other possibility is that it's a hitherto unseen shape of MDG with a non-batutto-ed bottom.

I would like to show this MDG lollipop that is 'ice cut'.............the faces are fully 'battuto' but the base has none and is flat .......

Cheers,

Patrick.