Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Pungent or Smelling Bottle
Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England
Date1813-1830
Dimensions2 3/4 in. (7.1 cm)
Mediumlead glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.269
Not on View
DescriptionEmerald-green 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, fig. 105, no. 1.
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. 33.
1780-1820
1780-1820
1780-1820
1860-1880
1830-1860
1815-1830
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