Unknown American
Medicine Vial

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Medicine Vial
Datec. 1810–1860
Made inUnited States
MediumNonlead glass
Dimensions4 3/4 × 1 × 1 in. (12.1 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.61
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description


Related examples: McKearin and McKearin 1941, pl. 242, no. 13.



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, prior to 1965; given to MFAH, 1969.

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