Bar Bottle and Stopper

Place of OriginNew England or Pittsburgh, PA, area

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH (with stopper): 33.2 cm (13 1/16 in.); H (without stopper): 27.65 cm (10 7/8 in.); Rim Diam: 5.15 cm (2 1/32 in.); Base Diam: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.)

MediumSapphire-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.111A-B

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesMunsey, Cecil, The Illustrated Guide to Collecting Bottles, Hawthorn Books, New York, 1970, Chap. 32, "Decanters and Bar Bottles," pp. 165-170, especially p. 167, bottom left two illustrations.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 51, center.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 219, no. 1256, left.

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. 540, no. 889, colorpl. 889, p. 570.