medicine bottle

Object NameMedicine Bottle

Factorypossibly Satsuma Clan Factory

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1870

Place Madepossibly Japan

Techniqueformed, engraved, polished

SizeOverall H: 8 cm, Diam: 6 cm

Accession Number63.6.115

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

East Meets West: Cross-Cultural Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th and 19th Centuries

On ViewChanging Exhibition Gallery

Physical DescriptionMedicine Bottle. Nearly colorless glass; formed, engraved, polished. Each of the two faces a circular area deeply formed with intersecting grooves enclosing squares of shallow cross-hatching; sides formed in ridges; ridges cease at top, replaced at each side of collar by opposed oblique lines, these areas being of unequal size; undecorated collar of uneven height (ca. 0.8 cm) in which the opening is off-center; conical shape stopper with circular finial deeply formed with a seven-pointed star; flat, rounded-rectangular base, many small bubbles.
Provenance

Source Dorothy Blair - 1963-03-18