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Title: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: glassobsessed on August 04, 2011, 08:42:17 AM

I have been tempted by another oddball bit of glass...

This one stands 22cm tall (a bit less than 9 inches) and is made half post (partially cased). It is not black but a deep purple colour cased in clear. It has a textured pattern as well as a couple of prunts for decoration. The stopper is solid rather than blown and ground to fit in a slightly crude manner. Much of the base has a shallow concave depression but I can not tell if this is the result of grinding and polishing or not.

Anyone seen it's like before?

John

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 04, 2011, 08:45:59 AM

I'm sure I've seen a relative in some '70s Hammer horror films, generally containing poison...

Is it hot worked or mould blown? - I'm veering towards the latter.

I like it, very Goth.

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: glassobsessed on August 04, 2011, 09:03:28 AM

Hammer House of Horror? I feel honored. ;D

Mould blown I would think Sue, there is a loss of definition in the texture towards the shoulder, a result of the application of more heat I guess.

John

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 04, 2011, 09:52:02 AM

I thought it looks mould blown around the base - but it also looks as if a biggish bit of hot glass has been applied to the base and "heat-flattened" - if such a process exists...

It's quite like the figure of an evil ghostly monk - (there should be plently of evil ghostly monks around... >:( )

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: poppyparker on August 05, 2011, 08:26:37 PM

Just looking through an auction site here in the US and came across a black/purple glass thing that's possibly Tiara Colonial black amethyst.  Haven't had to time look it up but it might be a lead.

 :sun:

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: robbo on August 06, 2011, 07:05:07 AM

I may be wrong but it looks to me as if it was blown into a wooden mould that has been allowed to burn and char. The texture, in places, has a vague similarily to some of Sarpaneva's Finlandia series (it's not that though...). The bit around the base looks almost as if the glass was allowed to force its way out of the mould.

70s Hammer or a prop from Carry on Screaming!   ;D

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 06, 2011, 10:46:32 AM

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"Do you mind if I smoke..........?"

That's a very interesting observation, Robbo - I haven't had the chance to handle or see anything which has been made using wooden moulds.

"Frying tonight!!!!!!!"

Title: Re: Wonky half post textured bottle with prunts and stopper
Post by: glassobsessed on August 06, 2011, 12:03:47 PM

Thanks Poppy, that Tiara Colonial (which was all new to me) looks to be much older and a different sort of style. I assume this is fairly modern quite possibly contemporary.

I know what you mean about the pattern looking like Finlandia Robbo, it reminded me of something but until now I had not realised what. :D
What I see my photos don't show is the variation in the texture, there are two separate patterns running in bands around the bottle. I had assumed the mould was metal, part of the texture reminds me of expanded metal trim - the kind of edging used by plasterers to get a straight edge running down a corner (like on a chimney breast).

More photos of the texture to follow. Hopefully the two alternating vertical bands show up.

John