Glass Message Board
Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: peejyweejy on November 25, 2009, 02:39:00 PM
-
This is a very unusual little piece. Very light - possibly soda glass - but it has a cranberry lustre wihich stops at the neck. Thought it might be for alchemy but I don't understand the ruffled neck or the colour. Not sure what it is, nor how hold - any ideas please?
-
Probably a carafe - and might well have had a matching tumbler in the past. I've seen a somewhat similarly coloured decanter in the past.
It's the sort of thing you'd have had on your bedside table a hundred years ago...
-
it is more likely lampwork of recent manufacture, not a tumble-up or decanter but purely decorative. Where it was made is hard to say. Lampwork only requires a gas flame and preshaped rods so it is done literally everywhere. But Romania seems a likely candidate, they like their surface treatment. Alternatively, Lauscha (Thuringia) is the capital of decorative lampwork...
-
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
-
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
In which case it is a perfume from north Africal missing its gilt stopperette.
-
Thanks Ivo!
-
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this is no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
In which case it is unlikely to be a decanter or carafe (though I have a 3" high carafe with its matching tumbler that was catalogued as an opium decanter... amazing what those Victorians got up to...
-
Do you think this could be an opium decanter. Did they heat the opium?
-
I think that the opium was actually dissolved in a little alcohol - called tincture of laudanum. This was usually taken with a little water. Very much for the middle and upper classes - which is why Marx called religion "the opium of the masses".
-
How, very, interesting. I shall have to google it and find out more - thanks for your reply. :o