Preserve Jar

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Object Name: 
Preserve Jar
Place Made: 
United States, NH, Stoddard
Accession Number: 
50.4.478
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22 cm; Rim Diam: 14.75 cm; Base Diam: 15.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1846-1870
Primary Description: 
Preserve Jar. Bottle glass, full of tiny bubbles, light olive-amber; free-blown; cylindrical body rounding at short shoulder sloping to wide flaring down-turned and under-folded rim, base slightly concave at center with traces of pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Mason, Herbert Delevan, Former Collection
Color: 
light olive
amber
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
green glass