Pocket Bottle

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Pocket Bottle

Place of OriginPittsburgh or near Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1800-1830

Dimensions6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.422

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionLight yellowish green coloring. Made by the half-post method: patterned in a dip mold with 36 vertical ribs. Removed, twisted to the left, and reinserted in the mold to create a broken-swirl pattern. Blown, expanded, and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 124-126.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 29-30, pl. 105.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 54-58, pl. 88, 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. 101, no. 14, colorpl. 14, p. 76.