| Three lip and neck
pieces, one base fragment, and 402 side panel and shoulder fragments
fall into the square "case" flacons type. Flacons were
blue-green, bubbled glass bottles of various sizes and shapes, all
of which were mouth-blown into dip molds.Their unique blue-green
bubbled glass color results from a mixture of sand, calcium, and
an alkali flux along with the lack of decolorize. Bottles of this
"common green" glass or verre vert were produced
in small glasshouses, petites verreries, in France during
the 18th century. The notable bluish tint from pieces found at the
QAR wreck site indicates production in wood-fired furnaces
from the forested area of Gresigne in Languedoc, a province in southern
France. |
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