Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Figured Bottle (Calabash)
ManufacturerPossibly
Kensington Vial and Bottle Works
(American)
Place of Originpossibly Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date1850-1865
Dimensions9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.430
Not on View
DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin and Wilson G.XIII-43) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the wide basal ring , and a base plate that formed the central kick-up.
On the obverse: a sheaf of grain above crossed rake and fork, with two branches of laurel above.
On the reverse: an eight-petaled ornament. Broad, sloping collar applied and shaped by a lip-forming tool. Within the basal ring the base is plain with a medium-high kick-up, and a very rough, off-center 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. 76.
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.XIII-43, pp. 663, 131-132, 491-492.
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. 134, no. 104.
1851-1855
1851-1855
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