bottle

Object NameBottle and Stopper

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1830-1860

Place Madeprobably France

Techniqueblown, cut, encased, molded sulphide

SizeOverall H: 13.1 cm; a) H: 11.8 cm

Accession Number84.3.200

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass, white sulphide; blown, cut, encased, molded sulphide. (a) Tall, rectangular shape; rim flat, with cut polygonal rim; the neck cylindrical and ground for a stopper; shoulders rounded and facet cut; flat obverse face with cut prismatic arcs around a circular convex panel enclosing a molded sulphide head of a man, facing dexter, signed "LOSCH" at the base of the neck; reverse flat; flat sides with cut intersecting grooves, four strawberry diamonds in the center, grooved panels at either side, a crosshatched triangular panel at top, and a long, swelling, crosshatched panel below; reverse face polished flat; base polished flat, with a polished oval pontil mark at the center. (b) Stopper, with flat, circular top, with cut radial grooves on top; short, tapered stem and polished, tapered shank with flat polished base.
Provenance

Source Louis Lyons - 1984-04-06
Purchased from Louis Lyons in 1984 using funds from the Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund. Catalogue cards say that these objects were a bequest of Clara S. Peck (by exchange), and the purchase recommendation says the museum planned to use funds acquired by deaccessioning duplicate paperweights, including some given by Mrs. Amory Houghton and Mrs. Leigh M. Battson. Several paperweights bequeathed by Clara S. Peck in 1983 were also deaccessioned around that time.