Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Keystone Glass Works (American, 1866-1891)

Place of OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1866-1874

Dimensions8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.437

Not on View

DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.IV-42) of two vertical sections that formed the body and the basal ring and a base plate that formed the central kick-up. On the obverse: 13 stars above and laurel branches to left and right frame a shield enclosing a large scalloped frame with clasped hands above, a Masonic-style compass and square center, and an oval cartouche below. On the reverse: a flying eagle with long ribbon in beak. Within the broad basal ring the base is plain with a plain kick-up and 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. 66, no. 47.

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.IV-42, pp. 560-561, no. 259; , G.IV-42, pp. 560-561, no. 259.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.IV-42, pp. 601, 173, 436-440.

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. 103.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.