Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Place of Originprobably United States; possibly England
Date1780-1820
Dimensions2 × 1 × 1 in. (5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm)
Mediumopaque glass canes with colorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.221
Not on View
DescriptionSix deep red and six opaque white canes embedded between two layers of colorless glass. Blown and tooled to sea-horse shape. Applied colorless bands of rigaree decoration. Rim fire-polished.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, fig. 102, no. 11.
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. 29.
1780-1820
1780-1820
19th or 20th century
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
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