Featured Cut glass or cut crystal glass Claret Jug Decanter?

I think this is cut glass. It has no seam marks.Its heavy at 2kg. Its hand blown as I can see a bubble or two in base.No maker marks.

I've been learning about cut glass and pressed and moulded glass and I see lots of conflicting information on videos and articles I've read including words used interchangeably.
I'd appreciate some input from anybody here who can help

Why I think it's cut glass from what I've learnt from articles and video online.

I see no seams - I know they could be polished out but I don't see any.

I see couple tiny bubbles so that means Hand blown not pressed or moulded.

Why it could be cut lead cut glass?

It's heavy ( I know pressed glass.can be also)
The stopper I can see rainbow when light shone on it not, but so easy with decanter.
The decanter feels a little sharp when finger moves (heard that pressed glass can be also)

I don't have UV light but I read that this would show a purple tinge If lead crystal.


The base has quite a lot of scratches which makes me think there is some age to this.

Any ideas of age? Possible maker? And if it's lead crystal.


Can hand blown glass be cut and just called cut glass but not crystal (min 24% lead)?

I also read that crystal.glass nowadays doesn't have to have lead content can still be referred to as crystal glass.

I realise that technically crystal glass is not actually crystal as well as it's not a crystal structure.

Thanks for help and advice

 

Found one that looks very similar. A Irish Waterford but the stopper is different.

 

Pressed glass can have bubbles, not saying yours is pressed, just don’t think bubbles rule out pressed.

 

Ok thanks for that input.. What would you say? Having seen photo. The weight, no seams, and the photo of a Waterford? Crystal glass?
Any more pointers on being virtually certain what it is
Thanks

 

The stopper on this one on Replacements looks different plus the handle on yours has more cutting than the images I'm seeing. Maybe they varied in the complexity of the cutting.
https://www.replacements.com/crysta...ction-claret-decanter-and-stopper/p/131157701

Worthpoint shows a lot of them:
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=Heritage+Claret+Decanter&categories=

 

This is certainly a Waterford Heritage Prestige Collection Claret decanter. I had one a few months ago. You need to look really carefully on the bottom for the Waterford mark. It can be hard to find. Does the stopper fit snug to the bottle? Often, the stoppers are lost or incorrectly matched to the wrong bottle.

 

Thank you for both of your replies- vitry le.francoisand Marie gorjan. Sorry I've been late getting back to you both.

I agree it's Waterford but as was already pointed out by somebody to me that the stopper isn't a match.
What value is reduced by having stopper ( still crystal)that doesn't match? Thanks

 

No question, it's cut glass. Crystal has come to mean 'colorless glass.' At one time it meant "made from a natural quartz crystal".

Waterford is/was a manufacturer who made glass in England, cut, blown and or pressed.

 

Um, Ireland not England. Also, of late, Malaysia.

Crystal is also often used to mean 24 percent lead glass or equivalent.

 

Yeah, Bear, its been too long, one forgets.

 

I feel your pain, I do that all the time. I blame insufficient caffeine.

 

I hope I can remember as much when or if I get to be 84. That is 14 years from now & I am already having issues.

Thank God for post-it notes, my shelves of reference books & Google searches!!!