The World is Made of Glass Ltd. has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
The glass is in excellent condition for its age.
It has a rough pontil mark on the underside of the foot.
The glass has a waisted bucket-shaped bowl measuring 7.2 cm (2.9 inches) in diameter at the rim. The bowl is plain and sits on a baluster stem consisting of an inverted baluster knop above a triple annular knop above a basal true baluster knop containing a well-worked air tear. The stem ends in a conical, folded foot which measures 7.3 cm (2.9 inches) in diameter. The glass is 17.5 cm (7 inches) in height. There are no chips, cracks, significant scratches or any obvious evidence of restoration. There is a flaw and what might be mistaken for a chip in the shoulder knop, but which was almost certainly caused by the pucellas at time of manufacture. There are a couple of minute inclusions in the metal of he bowl also dating from manufacture.
English lead glass weighing in at 240 g. (~ 8 oz.).
The World is Made of Glass Ltd. has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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Georgian Baluster Wine or Cordial Glass
