Pungent or Smelling Bottle

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Pungent or Smelling Bottle

Place of Originprobably New England, United States

Date1813-1830

Dimensions2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.268

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DescriptionAmethyst color. Blown in a full-size mold of two vertical sections. Stuck up and cracked off. Rim finished by tooling and fire-polished. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 378-389, fig. 105, 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. 107, no. 32.