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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: chilternhills on August 23, 2022, 05:00:33 PM
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I presume this decanter is by Holmegaard. I found a similar example online, just one, with similar decorative embellishments, saying it was made c.1900. My decanter is c.23 cm high, 8 cm square. The stopper seems original, fitting tightly and securely. It's spherical, but with a slight waist at the base. The pontil mark has been ground out and is circular, concave.
Am I on the right lines with attribution and date? Searches on GMB turn up nothing quite the same. Thanks for feedback.
Anton
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If Holmegaard, it's not the original stopper. Holmegaard examples, which do date from 1900 or thereabouts, also have berry prunts on their stoppers.
However, kluk bottles with applied berries and vines were produced by a few different companies across Scandinavia around the same time, and later. Hadeland in Norway made one with an applied foot and a stopper that had the same dented shape as the bottle (still in production last time I looked, although that was about 10 years ago). Others might well have opted for plain stoppers.
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Anton in my looking about them they have been produced in many places over a period of around 250 years. Holmegaard sems to have started seriously seeling them from 1840 or so. Jacob Bang in 1928 designed one in a crackled glass with a crown stopper. Kastrup had a range very similar to the current one from 1960 on - in clear, blue, and dark green. Some of the Kastrup ones were twisted as well. Consult www dot hardernet dot dk inder Stemware - Kluk Kluk to see the ranges. This is my "smoke" Jacob Bang decanter.
Ross