A solid iron or steel rod stuck to the base of a blown glass piece with a small gather of hot glass, so the blowpipe end can be cut away and the artist has a new handle to open the piece, finish its top and true up its rim. Working 'off the punty' is the last stage of most blown forms. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced When (Circa)Hollow iron rods from a glass workshop at Merida, Spain, have been dated to around the 4th century AD 1 OriginAlso called a punty rod or a mandrel, and very commonly a pontil; the piece is transferred to it after the blowpipe has done the first shaping, so the glassworker can open, finish and true up the end the pipe had been holding. 1 Connections
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1. Punty (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead section
also known as a punty rod, pontil, or mandrel
History section
hollow iron rods, together with blown vessel fragments and glass waste dating to approximately 4th century AD, were recovered from the glass workshop in Merida of Spain
- Used In: Glassblowing
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