(99E) English Glass Bottle with Raspberry Prunt H: 11.2 cm, D: 1690
This is a colorless gourd-shape flask decorated with gadrooning on the bottom and a raspberry prunt centered on each side. A similar glass vessel is in the Batchelor collection at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and was on display from December 2018 to March 3, 2019.
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John,
That’s an exceptional object. The gadrooning from the double dip method and than the prunts on front and back. A real craftsman made this rather unique object. Also a kind of coincidence that the parallel is on display at the Fitzwilliam. What better reference.
kind regards, theo
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