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Bar Bottle

Manufacturer Franklin Glass Works (so-called Kent Glass Works) (American, 1812-1816)

Date1824-1832

DimensionsH: 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.); Rim Diam: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.); Base Diam: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.)

MediumSo-called moonstone-colored glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.51

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-6) of three vertical sections of tapered cylindrical form and a plain base plate. Expanded and tooled to spherical shape. Applied tooled collar. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about 1 quart.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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.II-6, p. 229; p. 250, pl. 87; p. 294, pl. 117, no. 2.

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. 216, no. 232