Harry Pristis
Bronze Member
New additions to my collections of bottles and jars:
The ten-inch wine bottle seems like a throwback to the early squat wine bottles of the late 1700s and early 1800s; but, the production values are advanced. The applied string is tooled flat and the string and sheared lip are fire-polished. While there is a slight bit of roughness in the kick-up, that may have been left by the mollette, the iron rod used to create the kick-up.
The tall wine bottle, on the other hand, has a sheared lip and an untooled applied string which are not fire polished. The kick-up has evidence of a glass-tipped pontil rod.
The jar is amazing. It's not the largest I have, but it is a whopper! The color appeals to me.
The ten-inch wine bottle seems like a throwback to the early squat wine bottles of the late 1700s and early 1800s; but, the production values are advanced. The applied string is tooled flat and the string and sheared lip are fire-polished. While there is a slight bit of roughness in the kick-up, that may have been left by the mollette, the iron rod used to create the kick-up.
The tall wine bottle, on the other hand, has a sheared lip and an untooled applied string which are not fire polished. The kick-up has evidence of a glass-tipped pontil rod.
The jar is amazing. It's not the largest I have, but it is a whopper! The color appeals to me.
