Pocket Bottle

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Pocket Bottle

Place of OriginNew Jersey or Western Pennsylvania, United States

Date1780-1810

Dimensions6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.424

Not on View

DescriptionLight green coloring. Made by the half-post method: patterned in a dip mold with 16 vertical ribs. Removed, twisted to the right, and reinserted in the mold to create a broken-swirl pattern. Blown, expanded, and tooled to shape. The ribs extend onto the base and terminate at a plain circle approximately 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) in diameter. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 322-333, pl. 89, no. 5 (with ribs swirled to the left).

Wilson, Kenneth M., "Gloucester Glass Works," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 10, 1968, pp. 191-193.

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. 100, no. 12, colorpl. 12, p. 76.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.