Cologne Bottle or Cruet and Stopper

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Cologne Bottle or Cruet and Stopper

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

Place of Originpossibly Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1825-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm)
without stopper: 5 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (13.7 × 3.1 × 5.7 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.178

Not on View

DescriptionPurplish-blue colored glass. Bottle: blown in a mold (McKearin G.I-7, Type 4) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type I). The entire bottle, including the flange lip, formed by the blow-over and crack-off process. Upper surface of the lip ground flat and semipolished. Capacity: one-half pint. Solid stopper: tooled to shape.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in 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-7, p. 247, pl. 84; p. 289.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 269, fig. 223.

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. 231, no. 274, colorpl. 274, p. 159.