American Flint Glass Company
Pocket Bottle

Factory ownerAmerican, 1729–1785
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pocket Bottle
Datec. 1764–1774
Made inManheim, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumPotash-lime glass
Dimensions5 3/8 × 4 × 2 3/4 in. (13.7 × 10.2 × 7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.470
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

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.


ProvenanceJacob Paxson Temple (1880–1924), Tanguy, Pennsylvania; consigned to [American Art Galleries, New York, The Jacob Paxson Temple Collection: Two Hundred Years of Glasswork in America, November 17, 1923]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1923; given to MFAH, 1969.

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