Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

ManufacturerProbably Millford Glass Works (American, 1838-1860)

Place of Originprobably Millford (Milford), New Jersey, United States

Date1851-1855

Dimensions9 7/16 in. (23.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.438

Not on View

DescriptionAquamarine green coloring. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-112) of two vertical sections and a base plate. On the obverse: above furled flags, a full-face bust of Lajos Kossuth in uniform. On the reverse: a steam frigate sailing left. The concave base has a large red iron-oxide 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. 65, no. 45 (sketch).

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-112, pp. 534-535, no. 112; pp. 466-467.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 90.

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, pp. 113-28, fig. 93.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-112, pp. 551, 133-134, 469-472.

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. 134, no. 102, colorpl. 102, p. 80.