Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Kensington Vial and Bottle Works (American)

Place of OriginKensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1850-1865

Dimensions9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.429

Not on View

DescriptionLight greenish coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin and Wilson G.XIII-46) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the basal ring and a base plate that formed the domed oval kick-up. On the obverse: a sheaf of grain above crossed rake and pitchfork. On the reverse: a tree with foliage. Round reinforced collar applied and tooled with a special tool. Rough 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. 76, no. 84.

McKearin, Helen, Bottles, Flasks, and Dr. Dyott, New York, Crown, 1970, p. 41, fig. 12, pp. 105, 111.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.XIII-46, pp. 663, 131-132.

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. 132, no. 96.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.