This bottle and the previous example (B.58.7) are made in one of several mold patterns that have been associated with the Stiegel factory. Here the vertical flutes of the mold have been manipulated, or pinched, while in a molten state and prior to the blower expanding the gather, creating an allover ogival pattern, which then took on the soft appearance after the gather was expanded.

Related examples: Winterthur (Palmer 1993, p. 36l, no. 351); PMA (Garvan 1982, pp. 242, 243, nos. 19, 20, 21, 23); private collection (Palmer 1989, p. 214, fig. 6); McKearin and McKearin 1941, pl. 232, no. 2.

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.