Figural bird bottle

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Threw the dice on this at a Thrift Store for $1.99 . BIM , very thin delicate glass, a couple of small bubbles, loads of whittle ,crude lip , NO pontil . how old do ya think it is ?? is it some pier 1 import ?? , or could it be 1890s ,early 1900s ?? All opinions appreciated !! Thanks .

 

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[Rookster]

I have no idea but it's a cool buy. Congrats

 

[NJKLAGT]

'Not sure how old it is, but it sure is a beautiful piece, worth every penny!

 

[cje]

I've never seen anything like it . Can't go wrong for that price.

 

[sunrunner]

it's a cool bottle . though I don't believe it's very old . the glass has a modern appearances.

 

[Itsmine]

It could be like a practice piece from a modern blower. Definitely hand blown. The stress marks in the glass near the lip, and the rough lip indicate it was snapped off the end of the blowing rod. It might be an apprentice piece too....

 

[Tpmetal]

Ok so this piece is not terribly old from what I can tell. Looks like a seam line going up it and that combined with "waviness" of the texture leads me to believe it was made using a wet plaster mould(possibly wet wood mould but I doubt it). This could also be the reason for the discoloring on the lip; which is either plaster dust, or where a waxy tool touches the glass when it was really hot on the reheat of the neck, or least likely from the looks is where it cracked and was refused together. the beak is impressive if its part of the mould, but most likely pulled out later in the process before breaking off the blow pipe(nearly impossibly to get something that long and thin to blow in a mould. If it was puntiled it was directly in line with the bottle neck on the birds breast. Could have been cold worked and polished away if it was puntiled(carefully looking for a slightly different surface there could give it away. this piece could also be made from boro silicate glass on a torch, which would be a slightly different but similar process, and this a real possibility looking at the thicknesses of the piece. this is no older than 1960s most likely though from with in the past 20 to 30 years

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice purchase!

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Ok so this piece is not terribly old from what I can tell. Looks like a seam line going up it and that combined with "waviness" of the texture leads me to believe it was made using a wet plaster mould(possibly wet wood mould but I doubt it). This could also be the reason for the discoloring on the lip; which is either plaster dust, or where a waxy tool touches the glass when it was really hot on the reheat of the neck, or least likely from the looks is where it cracked and was refused together. the beak is impressive if its part of the mould, but most likely pulled out later in the process before breaking off the blow pipe(nearly impossibly to get something that long and thin to blow in a mould. If it was puntiled it was directly in line with the bottle neck on the birds breast. Could have been cold worked and polished away if it was puntiled(carefully looking for a slightly different surface there could give it away. this piece could also be made from boro silicate glass on a torch, which would be a slightly different but similar process, and this a real possibility looking at the thicknesses of the piece. this is no older than 1960s most likely though from with in the past 20 to 30 years

Tp , the discoloring on the lip was just a lime / mineral scale from I’m guessing water that was in it,but it is gone now. The beak does not show seam lines. Thanks ! It is a cool piece

 

[A2coins]

Glass blower for sure very talented. Nice piece