"You shall see, for here is a pot just opened, and this man with the long iron rod, called a pontil, or punty, in his hand, is about to skim it." ❋ Various (N/A)
The cute little pontil scar measured one cubic centimeter, the same, on the average, as the human navel that it resembled. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On the bottom of the bottle was a scar not unlike an umbilicus, where an iron pontil rod had held the hot, freshly blown bottle while its neck was being shaped. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Large, thick-walled container in blue-green glass with no pontil mark on the base and a rough, fire rounded rim, indicating that this piece dates back to the first half of the first century A.D. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An attendant then presented to him a lump of melted glass on the end of his pontil, and the workman, deftly twisting it round the neck of his decanter, clipped it off with a pair of scissors, and proceeded to smooth and shape it by means of the plyers. ❋ Various (N/A)
After this it might be used in its simple condition, or ornamented with engraving, while the bottom of the foot, still rough from contact with the pontil, was to be ground, smoothed, and then polished. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was here suffered to cool for some moments, and then, by means of a pontil tipped with molten glass, carried away to be fire-polished. ❋ Various (N/A)
The heated pontil was now applied exactly to the centre of this foot, the top of the glass divided from the blow-pipe by the application of cold iron, and the whole thrust for a few moments into the mouth of the furnace to soften, while the first man laid another pipe with another bubble at the end before the operator upon the bench, who recommenced the same process. ❋ Various (N/A)
Following the steps of the young wide-awake, Miselle saw him deliver the pontil, with the lantern still attached, to a listless individual seated upon a bench whose long iron arms projected far in front of him, while an idle pontil lay across them. ❋ Various (N/A)
A little farther on, a workman, loading his pontil, by repeated dippings, with a large quantity of glass, dropped the lump into an open basin hollowed in the surface of one of the iron tables. ❋ Various (N/A)
"He will drop it," cried Miselle, as another boy, wielding a pontil with ❋ Various (N/A)
The finishing over, another stick was thrust inside the lantern, and it was separated from the pontil by the application of a bit of cold iron. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was then cracked off from the pontil and carried away, a finished _liqueur_-glass of the tiniest size, to be annealed. ❋ Various (N/A)
To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass. ❋ Various (N/A)
The superfluous material taken up on the pontil, and the shards of articles broken in process of manufacture. ❋ Various (N/A)
A short iron rod or pontil was next fastened to the middle of the bottom of the pitcher in order that the blower might hold it, and after this had been done the blow-pipe was detached. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
One of them was finishing a drinking-glass, rolling the pontil on the arms of the working-stool; another, a beetle-browed fellow, swung his long blow-pipe with its lump of glowing glass in a full circle, high in air and almost to touch the ground; another was at a 'bocca' in the low glare; all were busy, and the air was very hot and close. ❋ Unknown (1881)
While he warmed the end of his blow-pipe at the 'bocca' he looked to right and left to see where the working-stool and marver were placed, and to be sure that the few tools he needed were at hand, the pontil, the 'procello,' -- that is, the small elastic tongs for modelling -- and the shears. ❋ Unknown (1881)
He left the cooling piece on the pontil, lying across the arms of the stool, and took his blow-pipe again. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Zorzi was seated on the working stool, the pontil in one hand, the 'porcello' in the other. ❋ Unknown (1881)
