So far I have these links associating this piece with Buquoy glass and as being from the early 1800s:
Shape comparison:
1) '
I've just found a photo of the piece in the DBG band II - unfortunately it's been cut off at the foot but you can see the shoulder knop details. The two other pieces in the metal mounted stands are unfortunately not in this photograph but they are identical cutting to my piece.'
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MsOYTBXCHhY/TXnP76Z-oXI/AAAAAAAAB-8/RNE14sI6Lzs/s1600/100_7486.jpgIt's the piece on the very bottom left of this photograph.'Shape comparison:
2) '
this is a photo of the Joh. Cassel, Wien perfume lamp shown in the book Farbenglas 1 (Neuwirth)
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/glass-fragrance-lamp-in-engraved-alabaster-high-res-stock-photography/159625168There are similarities with my little blue bottle in the neck design and shape, the petal cut foot and also the merese that forms under the curved panel cut body, which is similar to the design of the lamp cup.
The design of the perfume bottle on the right in clear glass appears to show how the bottles would ave a wick to work as a perfume lamp.Shape and date comparison:
3)
In the meantime, I also came across these Riedel pieces from Franz Xaver Riedel 1786-1844 on their site and the little bottle on the left has the same type of neck, so presumably it was 'typical' of that time:http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61460.0;attach=183571;imagehttp://www.riedel.com/history/generations/franz-xaver-riedel-5th/To add to this, I received a new book today
'Farbenglas . II', Dr. Walthraud Neuwirth, 1998
- Colour and date comparison:
4) i) Page 74 and 75 pictures three items in 'sapphire blue glass'. I am pretty certain that the colour of my bottle is the same as what is pictured, i.e. my bottle is 'sapphire blue glass'.
They are all dated as 'before 1837'. They came to the Technisches Museum Wien from two different sources. One source is just listed as ‘… (Inventory: ‘from Annaberg, Bohemia’).
So, I think this confirms:
- the colour as ‘sapphire blue’ and
- the date as possibly ‘before 1837’
And furthermore, there is confirmation that Buquoy made sapphire blue glass.
ii) On page 73 there is confirmation of Buquoy showing sapphire blue glass at exhibitions:
‘Buquoy in Silberberg and Georgenthal showed objects in Vienna in 1835 in “cornflower=,turquoise= and sapphire blue glass” (Neuwirth, Color in Glass I, 1993, p. 14), and of ….’