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THREE MUGHAL GILT MOLD-BLOWN GLASS BOTTLES Possibly Gujarat, West India, mid to late 18th century? Each of vertical square format, with recessing shoulders and cylindrical tall neck, the iron and cork stoppers a later addition, the body tooled to create a concave grid pattern and gilded, the shoulders with gold-painted floral tendrils with rosettes and stylised split palmettes, hatched motif on the neck, one bottle with dark brown residues inside, the tallest 14.8cm high. Square bottles of this type constitute a large portion of the surviving enamelled glass production of 18th-century India. Carboni explains that their shape derives from Dutch and German molded vessels, called case bottles, which would have been primarily?produced in the second half of the 17th century. After the Dutch East India Company established a trade factory in Gujarat in 1618, the Netherlands became a relevant force in Western India in the 17th and 18th centuries. Western glass became very sought after and it wasn't long before Indian craftsmen started acquiring the skills to imitate the imported glass vessels. The first Indian glass factory was opened in Bhuj in the mid-18th century. The method of construction of bottles like ours, blown in a two-part mold with visible seams at the corners, is clearly postindustrial European (S. Carboni and D. Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, pp. 286-287).Notes: Islamic & Indian Art