Castor Bottle (Cruet) and Stopper

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Castor Bottle (Cruet) and Stopper

Place of OriginPossibly New England

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH (with stopper): 5 1/32 in. (12.8 cm); H (without stopper): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/32 in. (3.1 cm); Base Diam: 1 23/32 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.62A-B

Not on View

DescriptionBottle: blown in a mold (McKearin G.I-24) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Upper part of neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark. Stopper: hand-pressed in a ring-patterned mold. Shank tooled and cracked off at end.

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-24, p. 248, pl. 85; p. 290; pl. 105, no. 11.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 238, fig. 196, left; fig. 197.

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. 266.