Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Place of Originprobably Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, United States
Date1851-1855
Dimensions10 3/16 in. (25.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.428
Not on View
DescriptionLight green coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-113) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the basal ring and a base plate that formed the central kick-up.
On the obverse: a profile bust of Lajos Kossuth.
On the reverse: a tree with foliage. Broad collar applied and tooled. The base is plain except for extensions of the side moldmarks through the basal ring; the slightly concave center of the base has a very rough, open 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. 75, no. 74.
McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.
McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.I-113, p. 535, no. 113; pp. 466-467.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 90.
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-113, pp. 552-553, 469-472.
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. 133, no. 101.
Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.
1851-1855
1850-1860
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