Snuff or Utility Bottle

Place of OriginUnited States, Connecticut, New Hampshire, or New Jersey

Date1830-1850

Dimensions4 5/16 in. (11 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.301

Not on View

DescriptionOlive-green glass. Body and shoulder blown in a three-piece mold consisting of two vertical sections and a base plate. Neck and rim formed by tooling, with the lip turned in slightly. Rough, open pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 430-431, pl. 428, no. 7.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 102-121, fig. 76.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 259-262.

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. 105, no. 25.