Carafe - Klukva - Glass

Klukva or bottle with a pinched quadrilobed body, ruby blown glass — Bohemia, 19th century, with a ball stopper and a gilded neck mount.
The deep, transparent ruby-red hue is characteristic of Bohemian glass colored with copper oxide, a technique mastered by Bohemian glassworks (Haida/Nový Bor region, Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary) from the mid-19th century.
This form, called Klukva or “pinched bottle,” with four symmetrical lobes, is a specialty almost exclusive to Bohemian glassblowers of the 1850s–1880s. It is rarely found elsewhere.
Numbered under the base and on the stopper 64.