Message #43362

[Wattana]

Hi Samson,

I agree with Charll - the bottle is far more attractive to me without the etching!!!  You see this kind of later etching done to older plain bottles. A real pity in my opinion. But since you were drawn by the etching.... that's what makes a horse race. 

However, I think you are incorrect about not being able to etch on glass. Zhou Hongbin (周鸿宾), also known as Zhou Honglai, used to do micro calligraphy on one side of a glass bottle, and etch a "figures in landscape" scene on the other. He was active between 1900 and 1920. Of course, he used traditional hand tools, not modern high-power drills.

Tom