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Powder Horn

Place of Originprobably Southern New Jersey, United States

Date1840-1870

Dimensions11 11/16 × 3 9/16 in. (29.7 × 9.1 cm)

Mediumnon-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.218

Not on View

DescriptionDeep reddish amber. Blown and tooled to shape. Applied opaque white trailings pulled up in a loop pattern and embedded in the surface. Applied and tooled double collar and band of greenish glass. Rough pontil mark at end of knop.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 434, top (form).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, fig. 489, no. 3; fig. 491 (assortment of glass powder horns).

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. 148, no. 140, colorpl. 140, p. 87.