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(German, “pole glass”) A tall, narrow cylindrical drinking vessel (hence the name “pole glass”), usually with a pedestal foot.

A cylindrical or truncated conical one-piece mold with a patterned interior. The mold is open at the top so that a parison can be dipped into it and then inflated. It is also known as an optic mold.

A pocket of gas trapped in glass during manufacture. The term is used both for bubbles introduced intentionally (known as air traps or beads) and for unwanted bubbles created during the melting process. Very small bubbles are known as seeds.

A drinking vessel with a bowl that rests on a stemmed foot.

A form used for shaping and/ or decorating molten glass. Some molds (e.g., dip molds) impart a pattern to the parison, which is then withdrawn, and blown and tooled to the desired shape and size; other molds (sometimes known as full-size molds) are used to give the object its final form, with or without decoration. Dip molds consist of a single part and are usually shaped like beakers. Full-size molds usually have two or more parts and can be opened to extract the object. Nowadays, most molds are made of metal, but stone, wood, plaster, and earthenware molds were used in the past and are still occasionally employed today.

(1) A rounded, hollow vessel; (2) the uppermost part of a goblet, tazza, or wineglass.

(German) A flask with the neck divided into two or more tubes. The Kuttrolf, which has Roman antecedents, was produced by German glassworkers in the later Middle Ages; it is also found among Venetian and façon de Venise glasses of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Work that is perforated. Openwork in glass objects can be made by creating a network of trails, by casting (see Diatreta), or by cutting (see Cage cup).