Coca-Cola Bottle

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Coca-Cola Bottle

Designer Earl Dean for the Root Glass Company, Indiana (American)

Manufacturer Glass Container Division, Owens-Illinois Glass Company (American)

Dateafter 1932

DimensionsH: 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm); Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass; mold-blown and firepolished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward T. Hill

Object number

2004.1

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Label TextThe Coca-Cola bottle, one of the first glass containers to be patented solely on its distinctive shape, was patented on November 16, 1915. Its design was based on the form of the cocoa bean pod. In 1960 the "contour bottle" was registered as a trademark rather than a patent, because a trademark lasts indefinitely. The Coca-Cola Company convinced the U.S. Patent Office that the very shape had taken on trademark status. By that time, it had been called the most recognized container in the history of the world.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery; San Francisco International Airport, The Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo designs for a Modern America, 2002-2003, repr. (col.) pl. 12, p. 32.