2 Cologne Bottles

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Object Name: 
2 Cologne Bottles
Accession Number: 
55.4.62
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1883
Primary Description: 
2 Cologne Bottles. Colorless heavy glass; free blown, cut and engraved; spherical body with solid ring base, short neck flaring to flattened rim; solid ball stopper; multipointed star on base, neck cut into eight panels, cut rim, stopper faceted. Engraving covering the entire surface of each bottle and showing a slightly different rendering of a similar subject: obverse a group of stable buildings, below the initial "R", on the reverse a galloping horse and hound, landscape in the intervening spaces.
Department: 
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Color: 
Material: 
Inscription: 
R
inscription
Engraved body, obverse
The art of the wedding
Venue(s)
Hallmark Gallery 1964-06-01 through 1964-07-31
For Milady's Dressing Table: Scent Bottles & Accessories (2006-06) illustrated, p. 11; BIB# AI71266
Ideal Cut Glass Company (2006) illustrated, p. 30; BIB# 92597
The American Cut Glass Industry and T. G. Hawkes (1996-09) illustrated, p. 4;
The American Cut Glass Industry: T. G. Hawkes and His Competitors (1996) illustrated, p. 239, #10-3, right; BIB# 36646
Cranbury's old offers new divisions (1983-04-27) ill. p. 13;