Primary Description:
Transparent very bubbly pale blue glass; some stain marks at interior; pattern-molded, with applied and tooled decoration. Vessel in form of a barrel, standing on four applied little feet which have been tooled; on top a mouth piece to which a pewter screw top has been applied; both ends are slightly sunken and show rough pontil marks; the object has been patterned in a rib mold, with ribs now only faintly visible and more clearly visible at one termination; a rigaree band has been applied to the two peripheral sections, each band wound around the object about nine times.