Featured Hand blown glass vase

Another £1 bargain from the boot today. A hand blown glass vase. The colours remind me of Mdina but there is no engraved mark on the base. Google is suggesting Isle of Wight studio glass but very hard to tell with things like this. They are all quite individual. It's 37cm tall.

 

Very pretty, whatever it may be!

 

Thank you. It looks like it was inspired by the sea, with the blue and green.

 

A great deal of Mdina isn’t marked. I’m torn between the two.

 

Wow. Fantastic. Shape says Isle of Wight to me and Judith Miller. Ha.

 

Color says MINE to me. I've no idea who made it, but for a pound? You can't even get cheaply, and badly, made Chinese tat for that any more here.

 

Thanks guys

 

Oh, belay that, I’ve looked again, that’s a known Mdina. Early.

 

Oh cool. Thank you.

 

Doing some digging and I have the name Michael Harris cropping up for Isle of Wight

https://miss-havishams.co.uk/produc...-of-rare-blue-aurene-attenuated-bottles-vases

And for Mdina
http://www.nationalglassfair.co.uk/Articles/mdina.html

Would the shape be called attenuated?

 

Yes. From 20th century glass.com
Michael Harris founded his second glassworks, Isle of Wight Glass Studio in 1972, at Old Park, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight in England, after leaving his first glassworks, Mdina Glass, in Malta. During the 1970's, some designs developed at Mdina Glass were also produced at Isle of Wight Studio, including the brown & gold pattern "Tortoiseshell", and a blue & green colourway named "Seaward".

 

Seaward - Wight Glass Collectors (wikidot.com)

 

Michael Harris got around a bit. Founded Mdina, then got the hump and left to found Isle of Wight glass and also Kerry Glass. Liskeard Glass is also connected via one of the workers at Isle of Wight.

And then you get into the complications around Mtarfa, Gozo, Phoenician which became Valletta, and MDG.

 

The seaward pattern looks magnificent. Love those swirls.

 

Sounds like he's been everywhere. Thanks for the info

 

I think that's what you've got.

 

I can see the likeness but the blues and greens have a slight brown tinge on mine. It also seem to be missing the swirling vortices of the online examples.

 

I have no useful input, just wanted to say DROOL!
I am very envious!

Linda

 

From what I've seen of these bottle vases there are huge variations.
The color combination is closer than any other of their documented colors that I've found. Maybe locate a Wight collectors club or museum to confirm or deny.

 

Yes could be an idea thanks. Maybe there is a Facebook group. There seems to be for everything else