Smelling Bottle

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Object Name: 
Smelling Bottle
Place Made: 
United States
England
Accession Number: 
95.4.203
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1780-about 1820
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. & A. Wendt Voorhees
Primary Description: 
Deep blue transparent glass; mold-blown. Flattened ovoid with sheared neck rim; patterned in a twenty rib dip mold and slightly twisted so that ribs are not quite straight; bottom fire-polished.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Webster, Donald, Source
Webster, Elizabeth Voorhees, Source
Color: 
Deep blue transparent
Technique: 
mold-blown