Smelling Bottle

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Object Name: 
Smelling Bottle
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
95.4.209
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1820-about 1850
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. & A. Wendt Voorhees
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; mold-blown in a full-size two piece mold. Flattened cylindrical shape with grounded polished neck rim and alternating group of vertical and horizontal ribs covering body; no pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Webster, Donald, Source
Webster, Elizabeth Voorhees, Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blown in a full-size two piece mold