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Jar and Cover

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works American, 1826-1888

Place of OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1860-1880

Dimensionswith cover: 5 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (13 × 6 cm)
without cover: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.585

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Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 495-496 (discusses bear jars and illustrates several, pl. 207, but none like this); p. 641, pl. 127, row 3, no. 25 (drawing).

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 284, nos. 1115-1118 (smaller types).

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 112.

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. 500, no. 831.

Label TextThis type of bear-shaped jar was probably used to contain bear-grease pomade, a popular men’s hair dressing in the second half of the 19th century.