ITEM 6570. UTILITY JAR, clear
olive green, dip mold cylinder, delicate "chestnut-type"
pontil scar, 5 ½"H, sheared and fire polished mouth,
as blown with several faint spider cracks that occurred during
the annealing process. New England, probably blown at a Connecticut
Glass Works, 1790-1830, rare size and form.
Blown from glass at the very bottom of the batch, this breathtakingly
crude jar is unlike any other we have encountered previously.
The noted damage is extremely difficult to locate and undoubtedly
a condition of manufacture. It is the nature of the glass, the
delicate pontil scar and general construction that point towards
Connecticut as a probable place of origin. Though it is possible
that the piece was blown as late as 1830, it is more likely to
have been made at or around the turn of the 18th century.
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