Castor Bottle (Shaker)

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Castor Bottle (Shaker)

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.5 cm); H (to rim, brass top removed): 4 9/32 in. (10.9 cm); Base Diam: 1 21/32 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.61

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-23) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type IV). Neck and rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark. Top, probably copper, made in two pieces, rolled, stamped, and punched.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 174, pl. 31, top row, next to right

References 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.III-23, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 28; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 10; p. 292

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. 268.