Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Place of Originprobably United States; possibly England
Date1780-1820
Dimensions1 11/16 × 1 11/16 × 2 5/8 in. (4.3 × 4.3 × 6.7 cm)
Mediumopaque glass canes with colorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.220
Not on View
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Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 252, pl. 241, no. 1.
- Glass
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, fig. 101, no. 2; fig. 102, no. 14.
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. 106, no. 30.
1780-1820
1780-1820
Mid- to late 4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
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