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A decanter with a devil inside. Glass. USSR, 1960s Height (with stopper): 25 cm. Body diameter: 10 cm. Good condition. Similar decanters have been widespread in Russia since the beginning of the 19th century. There is a special narrow hole in the head of the figurine inside the decanter, where, of course, vodka or other strong drink was also poured, a miniature hole was also left at the feet of the figurine. The bottom line was that in the morning in this vessel there was a stack of vodka that had leaked out of the figurine during the night, such decanters were very much appreciated precisely for this “hangover”. Guta - from the Latin gutta (drop). So called in Western Europe and Ukraine small glass production. In the modern sense, guta is a part of a glass enterprise where glass melting furnaces are located and glass is melted and glass products are made. Hard work is a method of molding products by a combination of a number of specific manual methods for processing hot glass: blowing into a mold, free blowing (without molds), molding and fusion of various parts, hot edge finishing, corrugation, obtaining overlay colored layers (nat), patterns from colored spots , threads, tapes, etc. In this case, the entire cycle of operations is carried out directly near the glass melting furnace.