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Bar Bottle

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 25.5 cm (10 1/32 in.); Rim Diam: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); Base Diam: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)

MediumDeep cobalt-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.5

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold of three vertical sections and a plain base plate that formed the body and shoulders. Neck formed by tooling. Applied lip and ring below shaped by a special forming tool. Polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 92.

Austen, Ferol, Poor Man's Guide to Bottle Collecting, Doubleday: Garden City, NY, 1971, p. 141, fig. 60.

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 33, fig. 53.

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. 542, no. 893, colorpl. 893, p. 570.

Exhibition HistorySpillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, intro. by Nina A. Asharina, Shedevri Amerikanskogo Stekla [Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art], exh. cat., Moscow, Soviet Press, 1990, p. 63, fig. 50, repr. p. 62.