Gemel Bottle

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Gemel Bottle

Place of Originprobably Southern New Jersey

Date1850-1870

Dimensions8 1/16 × 3 9/16 in. (20.5 × 9 cm)

Mediumlittle or no lead content glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Frank W. Gunsaulus

Object number

1913.550

Not on View

DescriptionTwo gathers, blown and tooled to shape, each with opaque white trailings pulled up into a loop pattern. Each overlaid with another layer of greenish glass, then stuck together and necks bent in opposite directions. Lips sheared and reheated. Applied foot of same greenish glass. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 150, no. 146.Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.