Pinch Bottle

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Object Name: 
Pinch Bottle
Place Made: 
Continental Europe
probably Germany
Accession Number: 
50.3.87
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm, W: 9.3 cm, D: 10.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1700-1799
Primary Description: 
Pinch Bottle. Brilliant sapphire-blue non-lead glass; pattern-molded and free- blown by half-post method. Tall ovoid body tapering sharply at top to very narrow neck with flaring rim and pewter collar, sides pinched together at middle on broad sides; pattern of expanded vertical ribbing.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Macbeth, George D. (1892-1968), Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
sapphire
Technique: 
molding
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
pewter