Topic: Georgian cruet bottle

[Keith Mick]

Interesting little find from a week or two back, a cruet bottle from around 1810-30. It has a band of step or prism cutting either side of a row of diamond cutting. Unusually the foot is also prism cut radially not like the more commonly used star cut.
Sadly not the original stopper,  may have been a mushroom shape original. Probably would have been part of a set in a silver or plated stand.
A lot of cutting work on such a small bottle, only 13.5 cm high without stopper.
Cheers
Keith

[Paul S.]

agree, very nice piece - good find - well done - love the shape.               My thoughts are that the prism cutting on the foot is perhaps not prism cutting - what do you think of cogwheel pattern ? ;-)                 Unfortunately, more than half the bottles I find are minus their original stoppers, but agree with you that a mushroom shape would have been likely here for this period  -  take it there isn't any No. on the neck, or thereabouts?

[Keith Mick]

Hi Paul
Can't remember if I've seen a different name for this base cut but cogwheel sounds appropriate!
Don't think there's a number will have another look, but the original stopper was only roughly ground so perhaps never   had one.
Cheers
Keith