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Bottle

Manufacturer White Glass Works (American)

ManufacturerOr Sligo Glass Works (American, 1819-1886)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1815-1835

DimensionsH: 25.6 cm (10 1/16 in.)

MediumGolden amber glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.66

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a dip mold with 24 vertical ribs. Removed and twisted to the left. Expanded and tooled to shape. Applied tooled flat ring collar. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about 3 quarts, 4 ounces.

Label TextBottles were in constant demand in the American colonies and later in the new Republic. Most of them were made in molds in bottle glasshouses that used unrefined raw materials, producing amber, green, and so-called black (dark olive-green) glass bottles and vessels. Most of the bottles in the Toledo Museum were made to store alcohol.Published ReferencesOtto Wittmann, "New Accessions," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer 1960, repr. p. 66.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, p. 364, repr. p. 370.

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. 65.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 328.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 121-123, 343-345, 358-359, pl. 96, no. 4.

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. 103, no. 20, colorpl. 20, p. 77.