Schnapps Bottle

ManufacturerPossibly Holmegaard Glasvaerks (Danish)

Place of OriginProbably Denmark, possibly Copenhagen

Date1850-1890

Dimensions6 7/16 × 8 3/16 in. (16.4 × 20.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1920.24

Not on View

DescriptionBody, head, and nose blown and tooled. Applied solid legs in loop forms. Applied ears, tail, and "button" on chest. Applied band of rigaree decoration on each side of the body. Colorless non-lead glass.

Published ReferencesGeorge W. Stevens, "President Libbey's Recent Gift," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 38, February 1921, repr. p. [5].

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., p. 788, no. 1336A.