Cologne Bottle and Stopper
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Cologne Bottle and Stopper
ManufacturerProbably
New England Glass Company
(American, 1818-1888)
Date1865-1876
DimensionsH (with stopper): 12.6 cm (4 31/32 in.); Rim Diam: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Base Diam: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
MediumLight opaque blue lead glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1959.31
Not on View
DescriptionBottle: probably blown in a turn mold and finished by tooling. Semipolished pontil mark. Interior of neck semipolished and fitted to stopper. Stopper: formed by tooling; semipolished ground shank and end. Shoulder of bottle encircled by band of white enameled flowers and leaves. Bottom, neck, and rim of bottle and neck and top of stopper gilded.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 107.
Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 196.
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. 547, no. 905.
Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 64, no. 43.The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 55, no. 11.
1860-1880
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