18th C. Hand-blown Emerald Green Glass Unguentarium-esque Phial lappland with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved form

with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved form

but with all sorts of marvelously primitive incised/scrimshawed drawings unfolding across its surface

hand-drawn in black and yellow ink and mailed in 1907 from Halifax

which looks like mink to me

but they were carved slightly unevenly

18th C. Hand-blown Emerald Green Glass Unguentarium-esque Phial lappland with wonderfully curvaceous hand-carved formI don't buy much glass, and when I do it is almost always from a dealer I love in New Hampshire, who knows his glass and likes early glass, as I do. He dated this piece to the 18th century, which I trust and which a little comparative research certainly seems to bear out, though I'm not sure its place of origin. For me its all about the color, a very rich emerald green, and the ungeuentarium type form (long neck, bulbous bottom, splayed lip; one of