Cologne Bottle or Decanter

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Cologne Bottle or Decanter

Place of OriginWestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, or northern (now West) Virginia

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.65 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Max Base Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)

MediumLight green glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Gogel

Object number

1950.7

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a dip mold with eighteen vertical ribs. Removed and twisted to the left. Expanded and tooled to shape. The ribs extend onto the underside of the base, terminating at a plain circle in the center 1.0 cm (3/8 in.) in diameter. Irregular, everted lip tooled from the neck. Kick-up in base. Traces of open pontil mark. Capacity about 1 pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 342-353.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 20, bottom center.

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. 104, no. 22.