Cologne Bottle and Stopper

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH (with stopper): 21.9 cm (8 21/32 in.); H (without stopper): 13.9 cm (5 15/32 in.); Rim Diam: 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.); Base Diam: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)

MediumGreenish yellow (so-called Vaseline) glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.146

Not on View

DescriptionBottle: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called star-and-printie pattern, each of which extended at right angles to form the flat base, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold that formed a hollow cylinder above the patterned body which was reheated and tooled to form the rounded shoulder, neck, and lip, by a plain male plunger. Hollow stopper: blown and finished by tooling. Cut with six pointed flutes.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, "Positively Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 27, April 1935, p. 132, fig. 2 (green cologne).

Lee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 538, pl. 205, middle row, second from right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 386, pl. 196, no. 1.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 247, no. 969.

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. 471, no. 764.