Figured Bottle (Calabash)

Place of Originpossibly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or New Jersey, United States

Date1850-1860

Dimensions9 11/16 in. (24.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.435

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media

DescriptionLight aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-35) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of George Washington in civilian dress. On the reverse: a tree with foliage and ten buds or fruits. Applied collar finished with a neck-forming tool. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, p. 76, no. 78.

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-35, p. 520, no. 35.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-35, pp. 532-533, 450-454.

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. 131, no. 94.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.