Utility Bottle or Jar
Utility Bottle or Jar
Place of Originprobably Connecticut or Stoddard, New Hampshire
Date1820-1850
Dimensions3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.200
Not on View
DescriptionDeep olive-green glass. Body blown in a three-piece mold consisting of two vertical sections and a base plate. Shoulder and everted lip formed by tooling. There is an irregular S-shaped indentation in the base, probably accidental. Rough pontil mark.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 246-255, pl. 75, no. 5.
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. 104, no. 24.
1830-1850
1850-1865
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
1820-1840 (Bottles); 1825-1840 (Mustard pot)
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
1820-1840 (Bottles); 1825-1840 (Mustard pot)
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
1820-1840 (Bottles); 1825-1840 (Mustard pot)
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
1820-1840 (Bottles); 1825-1840 (Mustard pot)
Perhaps second century
Second half of the first century CE
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