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2 Cologne Bottles

2 Cologne Bottles

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Object Name: 
2 Cologne Bottles
Department
American
Place Made: 
United States, Corning, NY
Date: 
1883
Color
Technique
AAT
glassblowing
AAT
cutting
AAT
engraving
Material
AAT
glass
Dimensions: 
(AB) Bottle with Stopper H: 18.1 cm, Diam (max): 12.7 cm; (Aa/Ba) Bottle H: 14.1 cm
Accession Number: 
55.4.62
Location: 
See Individual Records
Description
Clear 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.
Provenance
McKearin Antiques, Source to
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;
Ideal Cut Glass Company (2006) illustrated, p. 30; BIB# 92597
The American Cut Glass Industry and T.G. Hawkes (1996-09) illustrated, p. 4;
 

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