Toilet Bottle or Cruet with Stopper

Object Name: 
Toilet Bottle or Cruet with Stopper

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Object Name: 
Toilet Bottle or Cruet with Stopper
Place Made: 
Eastern United States
Accession Number: 
59.4.25
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; (a) Toilet Bottle or Cruet H: 14.8 cm; (a) Rim Diam: 3.2 cm; (a) Base Diam: 5.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1820-1835
Primary Description: 
Toilet Bottle or Cruet with Stopper. Clear very bubbly glass with slight pinkish-grey tinge; blown-three-mold; half pint decanter with oval body, concave base with rough pontil mark, and neck with two bulges tapering to flattened rim, stopper with conical knop surmounted by a ball knop body, patterned in a G.I-7 type 4 mold with ribs being vertical (McKearin, American Glass, 1948, Pl. 84).

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Hutzler, Constance Mayer, Former Collection
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, Source
1959-11-27
Color: 
colorless
pink
gray
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass