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Pocket bottle

Manufacturer American Flint Glass Works (American, 1764 -1774)

Place of OriginManheim, PA

Date1769-1774

DimensionsH 12.65 cm (4 15/16 in.); D rim 2.2 cm (7/8 in.); max D body 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)

MediumDark amethyst non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1957.32

On View

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

DescriptionBlown in a part-size piece mold of two or three vertical sections, patterned with 30 graduated flutes around the base and three rows of diamonds above with six diamonds in each row, each containing a 12-petaled flower. Expanded and tooled to shape. The third row of diamonds was constricted in forming the neck. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 16-24, pl. 1, no. 3.

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. 53.

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. 67, no. 2, colorpl. 2, p. 73.