one of those pieces that looks to be late Georgian/Regency, but is possibly a later copy (much later perhaps).
The shape appears to be a broad based taper, and the colour is very slightly grey - the depression under the foot is wide, covering about 80% of the base, and of reasonable depth and is slightly kicked into the body of the bottle - plenty of wear. The flute cutting is good and wide and neck rings not attached separately - they're cut from the original body mass and stand about 2mm proud. Slice cutting extends from base to lip interrupted only by the rings, and scalloped where they reach the foot. Stopper may well be replacement - doesn't fit tightly, and at first I thought it was a moulded cheapy, but then realized it's been ground/polished - no matching Nos. on either the body or stopper - but at least if stopper wrong then someone has gone to the trouble of providing a period replacement.
The bull's eye would be correct for c. 1800 give or take a decade or so - likewise the body shape.
Down side - appears perhaps too clean and less damaged than similarly aged bottles - stopper could be iffy - this heavy perpendicular flute cutting, sometimes known as Gothic cutting, is more likely to be c. 1840-50 than Regency - appears virtually free from stones/seeds.
Previous owner obviously didn't clean the bottle, as there's fair amount of muck around the rings area.
Some feedback requested please, good or bad - do I have the correct shape name, not easy with some of these variations - and thanks for looking.
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