Castor Bottle (Cruet)

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Castor Bottle (Cruet)

Place of OriginProbably Eastern United States

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH: 4 27/32 in. (12.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 23/32 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.60

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-13) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark with slight black iron-oxide deposit near center.

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.II-13, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 291.

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. 229, no. 267.