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Pocket Bottle

ManufacturerPossibly Mantua Glass Works (American, 1821-1829)

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly Mantua, Ohio

Date1822-1829

Dimensions5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.267

Not on View

DescriptionLight green glass with irregular, undoubtedly unintentional, swirls of a darker color glass. Blown and patterned in a part-size mold bearing a pattern of eight or nine rows of 15 diamonds. Expanded and tooled to shape. Slight kick-up in base. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesHarry Hall White, "The Story of the Mantua Glass Works," Antiques, vol. 26, December 1934, pp. 212-216; vol. 27, February 1935, pp. 64-68; vol. 28, July 1935, pp. 30-33; vol. 28, November 1935, pp. 199-203, 209-210.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 342-350, esp. p. 345, pl. 98, no. 11 (15-diamond pattern-molded flask, probably blown in the same mold as this piece).

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. 102, no. 17.