| If free blown, the bulbous glass is attached to a metal rod, called a pontil, for further shaping after reheating in the furnace. |
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| After the glass has been shaped, the glass object is broken off from the pontil iron, leaving a scar to the object's base. |
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| It worked on the same principle, but the molten glass on the end of the pontil iron was impressed with a crisscross pattern, using the glassmaker's pincers. |
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| A solid iron rod called the pontil was used to wrap, twirl, or pinch glass into desired complexities. |
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| A pontil rod was attached to the other end, and the blowing iron was cracked off, leaving a jagged opening. |
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| Genuine Loetz is always well made, often with a ground and polished pontil mark to the base, as here. |
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| Upon cooling, the disk was cracked off the pontil rod. |
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| His oldest exhibit was a German, black glass wine bottle with snapped pontil. |
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| The lamp has a squat body, steeply sloping shoulder and a flattened base, and a tall pedestal foot with a pronounced pontil mark on the underside. |
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| Rough pontil or punty marks, sometimes ground smooth, on the underside of the foot of a glass confirms it was hand-blown. |
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| The plate at the bottom of the stack invariably shows evidence inside the footring of having been fired on a ceramic pontil, or tubular support. |
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| Pontil et al, describes support vector machine for 3-D object recognition from the available detected objects. |
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| Pontil Minerex of Accra, Ghana conducted the drilling and assays were done by SGS of Tarkwa, Ghana. |
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