Pocket Bottle

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Pocket Bottle

Place of OriginConnecticut or New Hampshire, United States

Date1800-1830

Dimensions5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.420

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DescriptionOlive-green coloring. Made by the half-post method: the double gather patterned in a dip mold that appears to have had thirty-six vertical ribs. Removed, twisted to the left, and inserted in a dip mold with twenty-four vertical ribs to create a broken-swirl pattern. Blown, expanded, and tooled to shape. The base is plain, with a slight kick-up and a rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 436-439.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 67-68, fig. 52.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 322-333, pl. 88, no. 2; colorpl. 4, 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. 100, no. 11.