Bottle

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Object Name: 
Bottle
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
78.2.13
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 23.4 cm, Diam (max): 13.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1650
Primary Description: 
Olive-green non-lead glass; blown and impressed. Globular body, with long, tapered neck; trailed rounded collar below the rim; applied circular seal inscribed "RW"; shallow kick with rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Noel Hume, Ivor, Source
1978-12-18
Color: 
olive green
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
RW
Inscription
: 
on seal

Publications (7)

Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 27, #39; BIB# 58995
Decorative Arts, Jacobean (1985) illustrated, p. 119, ill.;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 21 (1979) illustrated, p. 122, #17; BIB# AI98081
The Bottle-Collector's Guide (1977) p. 40; BIB# 21810
Sealed Bottles : their history and evolution (1630-1930) (1976) pp. 12-13, 47; BIB# 19432
All The Best Rubbish (1974) illustrated, pp. 173-183, fig. 82a,b; BIB# 18610
English and Irish Glass (1968) sec. 4, vol. 9, p. 4, fig. 3; BIB# 27197