Hello,
I want to create this thread not exactly to request a specific item identification, bu tmore to get as many informatiosn as possible about the kuttrolf shaped bottles and decanters.
-it's origins, with if possible original roman examples, with age, and location, maybe kiln areas
-its evolution, with the modern shape, that would be at least from XVII, from pictures I saw here and there
but I would know more about how the design survived and spread throug europe, how to recognise a danish, german, or norvegian kuttrolf, what were fashion variations throught the time, when did the glass stopper appear and if there were genuine british made kuttrolf, or if they bought from denmark or norway and mounted silver tops on them only.
From now, I actually own 3 kuttrolf decanters
-one british, 1895, clear glass, with cuts, chester hallmark sterling silver mount, wrong stopper.
The glass has very clean shape and finish, single piece blown, quite light, the bottom has polished pontil, star cut and flat polished bottom, and 8 flat polished cut on top.
It's easy to see the top has been grinded to fit the silver mount, so I think the glass part has been made somewhere else, then modified to fit silver.
What I don't know is glas origin (british, danish, german or norvegian) and if the cuts were original, or later modification made in UK.
-one probable norvegian, much probably early XIX, grinded top for stopper.
the glass has crystals and bubbles, and a greyish-purplish hue, rough pontil, a kind of depression on top, probably two parts piece, really common on early design.
-one probable early XIX, norvegian glass and scottish late XIX silver mount, wrong stopper
the glass is quite similar to the other one, the seller mentionned a yellow-green fluorescence.
Rough pontil.
there are hot applied elements, as I didn't get it yet I can't confirm some details, but I think the top has no grinding for stopper, and probably cut to fit the silver mount.
Pictures are bottles 1, 2 and 3