Topic: Large Victorian(?) hand blown hand painted bottle.

[Anne E.B.]

I'm guessing this is either Victorian or Edwardian, and that it is a bottle rather than a vase but will more than happily be corrected.
If it is a bottle, then its a big one measuring approx. 10.5" high.  Unfortunately there was no stopper or lid with it, so I'm not too sure what might have sat on the rim of the neck.
The base is pushed in where the pontil mark is.  Some nice enamel detail on one side and plain at the other.  Slightly internally ribbed.  I just spotted this shopping this morning, and for only 50p!!!

Any ideas what it might have been used for?  It would be too costly to contain perfume because of its size, so may be it was some kind of decanter?

[flying free]

is it iridescent or my imagination?
Love the shape - really pretty.

[glassobsessed]

It might have had a silver top removed.

John

[Anne E.B.]

I hadn't paid much notice to the surface finish before, but it has a soft lustre sheen rather than an iridescence.
The neck and top look as though it could have had a silver 'collar'.  Its not finished off as well as the rest of the piece and there appears to be something whitish on the surface? Would silver tops have originally been also glued I wonder?

[glassobsessed]

That might be plaster, sometimes see it under collars typically with lamps.