bottle

Object NameBottle

Made FromGlass

Date1875-1978

Place Madeperhaps Near East

TechniqueBlown, tooled

SizeOverall H: 16.9 cm, Diam (max): 8.1 cm

Accession Number78.1.3

Credit LineGift of Wellesley College Museum

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBrown to yellowish brown translucent glass; blown, tooled. Bottle. Funnel mouth, with rounded rim made by folding out, up, in, and down; neck short, splaying at bottom; shoulder narrow, merging with wall, which wall curves out and down to greatest diameter, then in; base plain; no pontil mark. Decorated with 25 more or less vertical grooves, made by tooling, which extend from top to bottom of wall. Glass appears to contain lumps of incompletely fused batch ingredients.
Provenance

Source Wellesley College Museum - 1978-02-23