Pocket Bottle

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Pocket Bottle

Place of OriginConnecticut or New Hampshire, United States

Date1790-1830

Dimensions6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.423

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DescriptionLight olive-green coloring. Made by the half-post method: patterned in a dip mold with thirty-six vertical ribs. Removed, twisted to the left, and reinserted in the mold to create a broken-swirl pattern. Blown, expanded, and tooled to shape. The ribs extend onto the base and terminate at a plain circle about 2.5 cm (1 in.) in diameter, coinciding with a rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 322-333, pl. 4, no. 1 (with ribs swirled to the right, as is more usual); pls. 88, 89 (a variety of Pitkin bottles).

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. 99, no. 10, colorpl. 10, p. 76.