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pontil Glass making. (ˈpɒntɪl) [a. F. pontil, app. ad. It. pontello, puntello, dim. of punto point, etc.] 1. An iron rod used for handling, and especially for rapidly twirling the soft glass in the process of formation, esp. in the manufacture of crown-glass. Also called punty.1832 G. R. Porter Porc...
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Pontil mark
A pontil mark or punt mark is the scar where the pontil, punty or punt was broken from a work of blown glass. where the pontil scar would have been had it been free blown.
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Crown glass (window)
Known as a bullseye, the thicker center area around the pontil mark was used for less expensive windows.
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Simple Tips to Find the Value of Old Bottles | LoveToKnow
Nov 13, 2023Seams and pontil marks are two of the ways you can determine a bottle's age. The pontil mark is the mark at the bottom of the bottle where it was attached to the glass blower's pontil rod. Bottles can be divided into four eras: The Open Pontil bottle describes bottles which were made from the 1600s to about 1855.
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puntilion
† puntilion Glass-making. Obs. rare—1. [ad. obs. It. pontiglio, punteglio: cf. punctilio.] = pontil, punty 1.1665 Hooke Microgr. 42 Small..bubbles of glass..being crack'd off from the Puntilion whilst very hot.
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Bullseye (target)
In this sense, it was commonly used to describe the pontil mark on medieval crown-glass windows, where a blob (bullion, from the French boule) of molten
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punty
punty, ponty Glass-making. (ˈpʌntɪ) Forms: 7 ponte, 7–9 -ee, 9 punty, -ee, ponty. [app. ad. F. pontil: see pontil.] 1. An iron rod used in glass-blowing: see quots. Called also punt, punto, pointel, pontil.1662 Merrett in App. to tr. Neri's Art of Glass 364 Ponte is the Iron to stick the Glass at th...
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Blowpipe (tool)
By the end of the first century, the two primary glassblowing tools were the iron blowpipe and pontil.
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puntel
puntel var. pontil [cf. Sp. puntel].1864 in Webster s.v. Pontee.
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Yumin Art Nouveau Collection
Nancy artists advanced the technique of glass crafts from pipe blowing (Pontil) to more sophisticated methods of color-glass layering, in-laying, sculpting
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Wine bottle
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It is a historical remnant from the era when wine bottles were free blown using a blowpipe and pontil. This technique leaves a punt mark on the base of the bottle; by indenting the point where the pontil is attached, this scar would not scratch the table
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Glass float
(This sealing button is sometimes mistakenly identified as a pontil mark. However, no pontil (or punty) was used in the process of blowing glass floats.)
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Opaline glass
All opaline glass is hand-blown and has a rough or polished pontil on the bottom.
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Mercury glass
Sealing methods include metal discs covered with a glass round or a cork inserted into the unpolished pontil scar. The workman completes the object and then, the pontil rod or "punty" is cracked off leaving the familiar rough pontil scar.
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