Cologne Bottle or Cruet

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Cologne Bottle or Cruet

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1820-1840

Dimensions5 9/16 × 1 1/4 × 2 11/16 in. (14.2 × 3.2 × 6.9 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.181

Not on View

DescriptionSapphire-blue. Blown in a mold of three vertical sections (McKearin G.I-7, Type 2) and a plain base plate. Neck above the bulbous ring and flanged inward-folded rim sheared and tooled to shape. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

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; pl. 105, no. 5.

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

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. 230, no. 269.