Medicine Bottle

Place of Originpossibly Stoddard, New Hampshire, United States

Date1830-1845

Dimensions4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)

Mediumgreen glass (bottle glass)

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.231

Not on View

DescriptionDeep olive-green bottle glass. Blown in a full-size two-part mold that formed the body and base. Neck and lip drawn out and finished by tooling. Rough, open pontil mark.

Published ReferencesStephen Van Rensselaer, Early American Bottles and Flasks, Peterborough, N.H. Transcript, 1926, p. 257, pl. 129.

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. 105, no. 27.