Posted 3 years ago
BHIFOS
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Another just found it in the weekend. These aren't coming of the local eBay equivalent I have just been zipping around on the scooter checking places out for about a 160K radius. Again this has been produced in 2 parts but there is a real funny mark just to the side of the pontil. I have taken 2 photos one from the base and another looking down through the body of the decanter. It looks like the face of a jowly hound or some sort of unusual Maori motif? I asked a local friend who has been into this a lot longer than me and he had no answer and suggested Stuart that runs the NZ Glass blog so I emailed him and fortunately he knows Tony K and contacted him and believe it or not it is just a random pattern from either a bubble in the glass or a small tail of glass that flattened trapping some air when he blew it. He never had any tool or stamp to produce this. 285mm high.
Even though it was unintentional, the quirky little dog faces are a special feature.