Topic: Overshot leaf pattern decanter.

[bat20]

Hi all,found this piece over the weekend,sadly with a complete non starter of a stopper,nonetheless a good Xmas piece and very sparkly with a light behind,my guess is bohemian 1900ish,loads of wear with a polished pontil and an overshot chestnut leaf pattern plus obviously little red prunts/berries?,any thoughts on this one please and any one got a stopper that would enhance it,maybe an old cork would be the thing?thanks.

[Lustrousstone]

Interesting. I don't think it's chestnut as they have five leaflets and it's frit (glass powder) applied using a stencil rather than overshot (small chunks of glass).

[bat20]

Thanks Christine,I was wondering how they went about it,cross chestnut field maple?

[bat20]

Or ivy?

[Paul S.]

unrelated in most ways, but similar decoration on this sugar/finger bowl, which I'd thought was likely to be from the area you're suggesting, and from the early years of the C20.           
You can see the frit sparkling more on the pic of the inside, and as one of the four red beads is missing, they appear to sit within a small depression of the bowl  -  if you have all of your beads you're lucky.
This sort of green with enamelled dot decoration is typical of production from that period and place, BUT it's also not a million miles from some of the more recent Italian and Czechoslovakian decorated pieces, although not sure if those incorporate frit.
Hope you don't object to me adding the bowl.

Can't see you ever finding even a close match for a stopper, so guess cork it is  -  and probably just a stylized sort of leaf, but attractive  

[bat20]

Not at all Paul,I think your bowl is relevant to the thread,is the frit colourless?

[Paul S.]

does appear so, and it's overlaid onto areas that have been gilded (but I don't think real gold).