Cologne Bottle

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Cologne Bottle

Place of OriginProbably the United States; possibly France

Date1830-1860

Dimensions1 3/8 × 4 11/16 × 1 13/16 in. (3.5 × 11.9 × 4.6 cm)

Mediumcolorless nonlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.182

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a full-size mold of three vertical sections bearing a Neoclassical pattern and a plain base plate. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 378-389, pls. 107-113 (a variety of "fancy colognes"), esp. pl. 112, no. 7 (a complete example of this type of bottle); pl. 110, no. 6 (a different form of fancy cologne bottle, also bearing the letters [sc]DR[r] in script).

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. 108, no. 34.