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Pocket Bottle

Manufacturer New Bremen Glass Manufactory of John Frederick Amelung (American, 1784-1795)

Place of OriginNew Bremen, Maryland

Date1785-1795

DimensionsH 16.45 cm (6 1/2 in.)

MediumLight amethyst non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.89

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a part-size piece mold of two or three vertical sections, patterned with five rows of checkered diamonds with eight diamonds in each row. The underside of the base is patterned with an eight-pointed geometric motif. Expanded and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: about 1 pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 117-124.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 16-23, pl. 1, no. 1.

Lanmon, Dwight P., and Arlene M. Palmer, "John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 28, 1976, pp. 14-136; rev. ed. in John Frederick Amelung: Early American Glassmaker, Corning, NY, and London, Corning Museum of Glass Press and Associated University Presses, 1990, pp. 13-145, pp. 118-119.

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. 55.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 88; McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 324-325, figs. 92, 93A.

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. 69, no. 5, colorpl. 5, p. 73.