Bottle

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Object Name: 
Bottle
Accession Number: 
55.4.266
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.5 cm; Body Diam: 12.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1800-1825
Primary Description: 
Bottle. Transparent olive-green very bubbly glass; pattern molded and expanded; almost spherical body with pushed-up base having rough pontil mark, slender cylindrical neck with collared lip; patterned in twenty-four rib mold and expanded in vertical ribbing, giving a melon-like effect.
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
Technique: 
Material: 
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 107, #3, pp. 334-335; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 107, #3, pp. 334-335; BIB# 96725