Bar Bottle

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Object Name: 
Bar Bottle
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NH, Keene
Accession Number: 
55.4.218
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.8 cm; Body Diam (max): 9.4 cm; Base Diam: 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1816-1835
Primary Description: 
Bar Bottle. Transparent light bluish-green glass with small bubbles and few large impurities; blown-three-mold; barrel-shaped body with concave base and pontil mark, neck tapering to flanged lip; patterned in GIII-16 sunburst pattern.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
blue
green
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 86, #2, pp. 292-293; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 86, #2, pp. 292-293; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 86, #2, pp. 292-293; BIB# 96725