| After the glass has been shaped, the glass object is broken off from the pontil iron, leaving a scar to the object's base. |
| The superfluous material taken up on the pontil, and the shards of articles broken in process of manufacture. |
| If free blown, the bulbous glass is attached to a metal rod, called a pontil, for further shaping after reheating in the furnace. |
| A solid iron rod called the pontil was used to wrap, twirl, or pinch glass into desired complexities. |
| Zorzi was seated on the working stool, the pontil in one hand, the 'porcello' in the other. |
| It was then cracked off from the pontil and carried away, a finished liqueur-glass of the tiniest size, to be annealed. |
