Antique HALF SIZE Long Neck FLOWERPOT Wine Black Glass Pontil Utility Bottle

  

Up for sale is a very nice HALF size Dutch/Belgian cylinder-form wine/liquor aka generic utility bottle dating right around 1770. It's free blown with no mold seams.

It's a pale olive green glass color. It has a crude and very thick applied string rim/banded collar just below the plain straight lip and a kicked-up base with a jagged blowpipe pontil scar. It's 8 3/4" tall and it's a bit less than 2 7/8" diameter at the base, widening out to more like 3 1/4 at the shoulder.

It's got relatively straight sides but with a distinct flaring-out further up on the body, gradual shoulder, and long neck; it is a good example of "flower pot" form, likely Belgian-made for the Dutch market or possibly North German. Varieties of the shape pictured and described on pg. It's in truly excellent condition with no chips or cracks whatsoever, not even a nick, but with moderate patina including heavy all-over wear and some scratching, plus a dull haze inside and out. It was most likely an ocean recovery with that soft mineralization and having been worn smooth, in a pleasant way like sea glass, easily noticed around the mouth. I've pictured it next to some other early European blackglass to illustrate the variety of forms I have for sale - this listing is for just the single bottle, not the group.

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