Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Fislerville Glass Works (American)

Place of OriginFislerville (Clayton), New Jersey, United States

Date1851-1860

Dimensions9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.432

Not on View

DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-107) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the very wide basal ring and a base plate that formed the central kick-up. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of Jenny Lind. On the reverse: a glasshouse. Collar applied and tooled. The base has a medium-high plain kick-up within the basal ring and a rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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-107, p. 533, no. 107; pp. 467-468.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-107, pp. 550-551, 135, 465-469.

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. 99.