Figured Bottle (Calabash)

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Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Manufacturer Ravenna Glass Works (American, 1857 or 1864-1865)

Place of OriginPossibly Ravenna, Ohio

Date1857-1865

DimensionsH: 24.3 cm (9 5/8 in.)

MediumLight sapphire-blue glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1953.92

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-104) of two vertical sections and a base plate. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of Jenny Lind almost surrounded by a laurel wreath. On the reverse: a glasshouse. Collar applied and tooled. The base is plain except for extensions of moldmarks in the basal ring; the slight kick-up is almost covered with a red iron oxide deposit left by the pontil. Capacity: 1 quart.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, p. 46, no. 19 (sketch).

McKearin, 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.I-104, pp. 532-533, no. 104, pp. 467-468.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 61.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-104, pp. 549, 163-165, 465-469.

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. 132, no. 98, colorpl. 98, p. 80.