Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Whitney Brothers Glass Works (American)

Place of OriginGlassboro, New Jersey, United States

Date1850-1865

Dimensions9 7/16 in. (23.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.427

Not on View

DescriptionDeep reddish brown coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.XIII-4) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the broad basal ring and a base plate that formed the central kick-up. On the obverse: two running dogs and a hunter shooting two ducks. On the reverse: a fisherman and a mill in the background. Broad, sloping collar applied and shaped by a lip-forming tool. The base is plain except for extensions of the side moldmarks through the broad basal ring to a plain, fairly high kick-up with a small nipple in the center. Black iron-oxide pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, p. 46, no. 20.

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, pp. 36-44, esp. p. 40.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.XIII-4, pp. 656-657, 495, 90-93.

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. 135, no. 105.