What Does a Pontil Mark Look Like
Glass Was Hand Made Until Fairly Recently, and up Until the Mid-19Th Century Was Primarily Hand Blown Using a Pontil Iron. … Pretty Much All Glassware Made up...
Glass was hand made until fairly recently, and up until the mid-19th century was primarily hand blown using a pontil iron. … Pretty much all glassware made up until about 1780 will have this rough pontil mark.
Does all hand blown glass have a pontil mark?
Glass was hand made until fairly recently, and up until the mid-19th century was primarily hand blown using a pontil iron. … Pretty much all glassware made up until about 1780 will have this rough pontil mark.
What does a rough pontil mark mean?
A pontil mark or punt mark is the scar where the pontil, punty or punt was broken from a work of blown glass. The presence of such a scar indicates that a glass bottle or bowl was blown freehand, while the absence of a punt mark suggests either that the mark has been obliterated or that the work was mold-blown.
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