Footed Bellows Bottle

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Footed Bellows Bottle

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1830-1850

DimensionsH: 28.1 cm (11 1/16 in.); Rim Diam: 3.75 cm (1 15/32 in.); Base Diam: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.15

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and tooled to shape. Applied opaque white threads pulled up in a loop pattern, then overlaid with colorless glass. Applied bands with leaf-prunt decoration on each of the four edges. Applied collar at lip. Applied band on neck. Applied tooled knopped stem and slightly domed foot. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 7, no. 2 (type).

Wakefield, Hugh, Nineteenth Century British Glass, London, Faber and Faber, 1961; 2d ed., 1982, fig. 24.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, fig. 221 (opaque white with red loops attributed to Henry Benson, probably at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Works).

Manley, Cyril, Decorative Victorian Glass, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981, p. 101, figs. 335-336 (two bellows bottles made by Robinson and Company, Ltd., Warrington, England, about 1900).

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. 148, no. 141.