Topic: Green glass oil vinegar bellows bottle

[WhatHo!]

Hi Guys, can you help me with this oil bottle please.
It is 8" tall, has domed folded foot and a snapped pontil.
Any idea of age maker etc ?
cheers Wolfie

[brucebanner]

Had the same one i have packed away, i thought it modernish.

[WhatHo!]

Everything about it suggests to me Victorian hahaha

[glassobsessed]

Could be late 19thC, suspect this double mouth cruet form has been in use for many hundreds of years. Very hard to asses from photos without handling but I see nothing that would immediately rule out made for or made by Salviati. Two are shown with differing coloured glass and varying embellishments on page 128 Venetian Glass of the 1890s by Carol Osbourne.

No idea if anything similar has been made on Majorca - might be worth looking at Gordiola's production if only to rule them out.

John

[Paul S.]

would agree - this 'Siamese' invention goes back a long way, and probably owes a lot to the original gimmel flask design, but would also agree this one looks modern  -  that folded foot looks very third quarter C20 Gulf of Venice - although the piece itself may well not be - see John's thoughts.
There's no comment on the degree of wear  -  you'd expect plenty if this was a C19 piece, even though there's very limited contact between the folded foot and work surfaces  -  especially as the implied design is for an item that suggests a utility use  -  but may in fact have been made from the point of view of decoration only.