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« Reply #60 on: October 02, 2017, 03:43:20 am »

It as been very interesting having Rube's bottle posted as you normally see an overlay bottle and it is simply that, you don't question it. But with Rube's bottle there was reason to and it's quite something to have so many pictures of the same bottle provided before it becomes more likely to be a true overlay than an applique.

But what is a true overlay ? Because I came across a description of an "applied" overlay which is not a description I had noticed before. It related to what is a multi colour single overlay layer bottle as opposed to multi colours built up in different layers so is as much related to appliqued as overlaid.

For a traditional single overlay bottle you gather the base colour on the blow tube, roll it to a form a cylinder and dip it in liquid overlay colour and then blow and form the bottle. If you don't carve the overlay colour it may be called "cased" glass, one colour encased in another. When you start carving away the overlay to form a design it becomes what we term an overlay.

With an applied overlay, as the name suggests, you apply areas of colour in specific areas, for instance to form different coloured flowers. For applique the flowers would be already shaped when applied, for an applied design the shape is not formed when applied, simply a blob of colour put in a specific place with the design already known before the bottle is made.

If the applied bits are to be different coloured flowers then the gather of base colour with applied blobs of colours can be dipped in a green overlay which will cover the blobs of colour. When the bottle has been formed and cooled the overlay of green can be ground down to reveal the different applied blobs of colour. The blobs can be carved as flowers and the green carved to form the stems and foliage.

The first picture shows a very poorly conceived multi colour single overlay. The different colours aren't used to form different elements of a design, instead the carver seems to have randomly carved and included different colours for any one element of the design.

The second picture is done purely by an applied method. Each separate colour has been applied as stripes of colour as you can see on the base of the bottle.

Regards, Adrian.


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