Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Place of OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, United States
Date1851-1855
Dimensions10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.434
Not on View
DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-100) of two vertical sections and a base plate.
On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of Jenny Lind almost surrounded by a laurel wreath.
On the reverse: a profile bust of Lajos Kossuth. Broad sloping collar with reinforcing ring below applied and formed by a necking tool. The base is plain except for extensions of the side moldmarks through the basal ring; the base is concave and has a 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. 73.
McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.I-100, p. 531, no. 100; pp. 466-468.
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-100, pp. 548-549, 465-472.
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. 100.
1851-1855
1850-1860
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