Message #46865

[Fiveroosters aka clayandbrush]

Dear Adrian,
I guarantee that the narrowing is not there and you can see it in the pictures below. Besides that, in the first picture, look at the upper left side of the bottle. You can see that the thickness is not constant, on the shoulder is thicker then, before to reach the widest point of the bottle the thickness changes two times. That is normal for blown bottles, because they are not poured into stamps as you believe, they are blown on the fly, rotating the molten glass, and this produces differences in thickness here and there, absolutely typical for that work. 
Anyway, I do not want to insist too much, to me it is logical and demonstrated. I am also convinced as said elsewhere that the surface of a carved glass, even if perfectly polished, is different from the surface of a blown glass. Also, as said by Tom, it is a non sense to carve such simple bottle. Carving requires a lot of hours and it should be made only for special items.
Also, I don’t agree that glass imitating other materials like stones are carved from solid blocks. If so, it is absolutely easily identifiable because you will have the stone veins cut, and not following the curvature of the walls of the bottle.
Kind regards
Giovanni