Cologne Bottle

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Cologne Bottle

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or New Jersey

Date1860-1880

Dimensions1 5/8 × 7 11/16 in. (4.1 × 19.5 cm)
1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.583

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold of two vertical sections and a base plate. Rope-pattern corners enclose four panels, each of three bearing a long-stemmed rose and rosebud, embossed, the fourth, a plain panel, bearing the paper label. Rim reheated and tooled into a short, flanged lip. Plain base. No pontil mark. Opal glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 378-389, pl. 112, no. 13 (smaller, colorless glass cologne bottle of the same form and design).

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. 108, no. 35.