Cologne Bottle or Cruet and Stopper

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Cologne Bottle or Cruet and Stopper

Manufacturerprobably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Sandwich, Massachusetts

Date1825-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
without stopper: 6 1/16 × 1 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (15.4 × 3.8 × 5.5 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.176A-B

Not on View

DescriptionPurplish blue. Bottle: blown in a mold (McKearin G.I-3, Type II) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint. Solid stopper: patterned in a 16-rib mold and tooled to tam-o'-shanter shape, the lower part tapered and extending 2.5 cm (1 in.). Cracked off at lower end.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen, "Blown Three-Mold Fragments Excavated at Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 35, May 1939, pp. 240-243 (Reprint 1, pp. 168-171), p. 240, no. 2.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.I-3, p. 247, pl. 84; p. 288, pl. 105, no. 8.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 270, fig. 223, right.

Wilson, 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. 232, no. 277.