Pickle Bottle

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pickle Bottle
Datec. 1850–1860
Possible placeBoston area, Massachusetts, United States
MediumSoda-lime glass
Dimensions11 3/16 × 3 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (28.4 × 9.2 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.75.30
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Technical notes: Paper label on bottom that reads “197” in faded ink.

Related examples: Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, with original label (McKearin and Wilson 1978, pl. 73, no. 10); another with fragmentary Boston-area label (McKearin and Wilson 1978, pl. 74, no. 12).

Related examples with traces of original paper labels indicate that this stylish type of Gothic ornamented pickle bottle was intended for commercial rather than domestic use.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, 1975.

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