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Preserve Jar

Manufacturer Franklin Glass Works (American, 1812-1816)

Place of OriginWarwick, Massachusetts

Date1812-1816

DimensionsH 28.5 cm (11 7/32 in.); max D body 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.); D rim 12.5 cm (4 29/32 in.)

MediumDeep olive-amber glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.80

Not on View

DescriptionBody blown in a mold for size and shape. Shoulder, neck, and outward-turned rim finished by tooling. Slight kick-up in base. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 60.

Austen, Ferol, Poor Man's Guide to Bottle Collecting, Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1971, p. 69, repr. fig. 25.

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. 140, no. 118.