Cologne Bottle or Cruet

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Cologne Bottle or Cruet

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly the Midwest

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumLavender-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.31

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.I-9) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. The fourteen panel ribs extend onto the base about 0.8 cm (1/4 in.), forming a slight recess for the rest of the base. All but the top one-fourth of the neck and plain flange lip, which was sheared and tooled to shape, was formed in the mold. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.I-9, p. 247, pl. 84; p. 289

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. 233, no. 278.