Bottle with Stopper

Object Name: 
Bottle with Stopper

Notice of Upcoming Content and Access Change

The Museum is working on the future of our online collections access, which will be incrementally released over time. On November 1, 2022, “My Collection” sets will be discontinued and no longer available. If you have “My Collection” sets you wish to preserve, we encourage you to print the sets, save as a PDF, or otherwise make your own copies of important information for your future reference.

What is AAT?

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More

Object Name: 
Bottle with Stopper
Place Made: 
United States, New England
Accession Number: 
55.4.262
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm; (a) Bottle H: 12.7 cm, Diam (max): 7.9 cm; (a) Base: 6.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1790-1810
Primary Description: 
Bottle with Stopper. Transparent very bubbly olive-green glass; wear marks; pattern molded and expanded; oval body with concave base and rough pontil mark, short spreading neck; second superimposed gather (half-post method) double-patterned in thirty-six-rib mold and expanded in broken swirl design (ribs swirling to right); olive-amber stopper with flattened round finial found with bottle but not original.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
olive green
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
On the Road to Rochester
Venue(s)
Landmark Society of Western New York 1984-03-04 through 1984-04-29
 

Publications (5)

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 9, 91, pl. 8; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 42-43, #7; BIB# 34475
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 105, #4, pp. 330-331; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 105, #4, pp. 330-331; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 105, #4, pp. 330-331; BIB# 96725