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Bottle

Place of OriginProbably Ohio

Date1815-1835

DimensionsH 30.5 cm (12 in.)

MediumDeep golden amber glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.92

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a dip mold with 28 vertical ribs. Removed and twisted to the left. Expanded and tooled to shape. The ribs extend onto the base and terminate at a plain circle about 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.) in diameter that almost coincides with the rough pontil mark. Applied tooled lip. Capacity: almost 6 quarts.

Published ReferencesRogers, 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. 60.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 342-353, repr. pl. 96, no. 6.

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. 19.