Bellows Bottle

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Bellows Bottle

Place of Originprobably South Jersey, United States

Date1830-1860

Dimensions9 1/8 × 3 13/16 × 1 in. (23.2 × 9.7 × 2.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1920.23

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and tooled to shape. Applied opaque white trailings pulled up in a loop pattern. Applied collar at lip. Applied band at base of neck and applied bands of rigaree decoration at each corner and at center of one flat side, with an indented prunt at center of opposite side. Applied handles at base. Light greenish non-lead glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 229, no. 1 (a more elaborate example).

Wakefield, Hugh, Nineteenth Century British Glass, London, Faber and Faber, 1961; 2d ed., 1982, fig. 22B.

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. 148, no. 142.