Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Figured Bottle (Calabash)
Place of Originpossibly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or New Jersey, United States
Date1850-1860
Dimensions9 11/16 in. (24.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.435
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media
Collections
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. 78.
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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-35, p. 520, no. 35.
McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-35, pp. 532-533, 450-454.
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. 131, no. 94.
Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.
1851-1855
1851-1855
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