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Pocket Bottle

Manufacturer Sligo Glass Works (American, 1819-1886)

ManufacturerOR J. Shepard & Co., White Glass Works (American)

ManufacturerOR Zanesville Glass Works (American, 1815-1851)

Place of OriginZanesville, OH or Pittsburgh, PA

Date1815-1835

DimensionsH 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.)

MediumOlive amber (citron) glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1953.164

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a three-piece part-size mold consisting of two vertical sections, bearing a pattern of one row of ten half diamonds below and four rows of ten diamonds above, and a horizontal bottom section bearing a pattern of ten broad panels or flutes. Expanded and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. cover.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 64 and cover.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Treasures from Toledo, Ohio: The European and American Glass Collection," Apollo, vol, 86, December 1967, pp. 478-485, p. 484, repr. fig. 15.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 92.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 121-123, 343-345, pl. 97, nos. 4, 10; pl. 98, 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. 101 no. 16, colorpl. 16, p. 77.

A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, 1966; repr.

"To Visit: Toledo Museum's Gallery of Glass..." Spinning Wheel, vol. 27, no. 2, March 1971; p. 62, repr.

Fundaburk, Emma Lila and Davenport, Thomas G.; Art in Public Places in the United States; Bowling Green, 1975; repr. no. 254, p. 183.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Ohio Glass, exh. cat., October, 1953, no. 12.