Bitters or Cologne Bottle

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Bitters or Cologne Bottle

Place of OriginUnited States

DateProbably 1855-1865

DimensionsH: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/32 in. (3.55 cm); Base Diam: 2 11/32 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumDeep amethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.110

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Argus pattern, each of which also formed one-third of the base, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold that formed a hollow cylinder above the ribbed shoulder which was reheated, tooled, and sheared to form the shoulder, neck, and lip, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the underside of the base to the top fine rib on the shoulder, each bending leftward around the edge of the oval between upper and lower panels. Gather applied at the juncture of the shoulder and neck and tooled into a triple band. Interior of neck not ground for a stopper. Deep concave pontil mark fire-polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 18-21 (Argus pattern), form no. 3.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 403.

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. 471, no. 763.