These bottles, with their spherical body and their long narrow neck were a popular model in the seventeenth century, found in various shades of green and blue glass. They were a favourite object for diamond-point engravings. This was the art of scratching a picture or a text onto the surface of the glass with a diamond-tipped pen. An interesting aspect of this bottle is that the stopper has been preserved. The silver top is made of a coin bearing the head of Queen Christina of Sweden (reigned from 1632 to 1654) and the text 'REGINA CHRISTINA'. The coin is attached to the neck of the bottle with a silver mount. A lever facilitates the opening of the lid.
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python_regius) wrote2009-03-23 08:16 pm
