Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Place of OriginUnited States or England
Date1780-1820
Dimensions3 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (8.6 × 4.5 cm)
Mediumcolorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.222
Not on View
DescriptionColorless glass with a greenish tinge. Blown and tooled to sea-horse shape. Applied rigaree and pincered decoration. Rim fire-polished.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 449, 452, pl. 240, nos. 21, 22.
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, fig. 101, no. 13.
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. 28.
1780-1820
1780-1820
1780-1820
Late 17th century - early 18th century
Late 17th century - early 18th century
1830-1860
Possibly 7th-8th century
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