Bitters Bottle and Cap

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH (with cap): 6 11/16 in. (17.0 cm); H (without cap): 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Base Diam: 2 17/32 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.186

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold, probably of two vertical sections bearing eight flutes, in the form of a large tapered tumbler, with a base plate, by a plain male plunger. Stuck up and reheated, then the shoulder and neck formed by tooling. Neck ring applied to support the Britannia-ware stopper. Neck and shoulder heavily fire-polished. Pontil mark ground and polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 45-47 (flute pattern), form 2, pls. 1, 13.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 184, bottom left.

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. 472, no. 766.

Exhibition HistorySmithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1976-77.