Pocket Bottle

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Pocket Bottle

Place of OriginWestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, or West Virginia

Date1800-1830

Dimensions4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.421

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DescriptionOlive-amber 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 2.0 cm (3/4 in.) in diameter, which is partly obscured by the rough, open 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.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 322-333, pl. 88, no. 1; colorpl. 4, no. 2.

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. 15.