Figure 9. — Bottle of green glass in the form of a 

 miniature wine bottle. 



FIGURE 9 



A small glass bottle in wine-bottle style but prob- 

 ably intended for oil or vinegar, and fashioned from a 

 pale-green metal comparable to that used for phar- 

 maceutical phials and flasks. The base has a pro- 

 nounced conical kick, but is not appreciably thicker 

 than the walls of the body. The mouth is slightly 

 everted over a V-sectioned string rim. On the yard- 

 stick of wine-bottle evolution such a bottle is unlikcK 

 to have been manufactured prior to 1680 or later 

 than about 1720. E5. (See also fig. 15, no. 19.) 



FIGURES 10 AND 11 

 Stem and foot fragment from an elaborate drinking 

 glass or candlestick, English lead metal of splendid 

 quality. The solid stem is formed from two qua tre- 

 foil balusters between which is a melon knop with 

 mereses above and below. The stem terminates in 

 two mereses of increasing size and is attached to an 

 elaborately gadrooned foot, only part of which sur- 

 vives. Any suggestion that the foot is actually part 

 of the base of the bowl is negated by the presence of 

 a rough pontil scar inside it, as well as by the fact that 

 the surviving fragment spreads out at so shallow an 

 angle that no other construction is possible. 



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Figure 10. — An elaborate stem of English glass, 

 London, about 1 685-1695. 



The stem form is most closely paralleled by two 

 goblets illustrated in W. A. Thorpe's History of 

 English and Irish Glass,™ one of which contains within 

 its stem an English fourpenny piece of 1680. Because 

 no known goblet exhibits the high, gadrooned foot of 

 the Clay Bank example, it has been suggested that 

 the stem may be that of a candlestick. 39 While this 

 is certainly a reasonable supposition, it must be added 

 that neither have examples of candlesticks been found 

 in this form. (For conjectural reconstruction 

 fig. 11.) Although it is extremely unfortunate that 

 no upper fragments were found, there is no doubt as 

 to the date of the surviving section, nor is there any 



38 \\ . A. I » 'Hir. -I History of English and Irish Glass (London, 

 1929), vol. 2. pi. 29 and 31, no. 2. 



39 See p. 13. 



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