Unknown American
Pocket Bottle

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pocket Bottle
Datec. 1790–1825
Made inUnited States
MediumNonlead glass
Dimensions7 in. height (17.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.490
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: McKearin and McKearin 1941, pl. 232, no. 4.

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.



Provenance[George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1925; given to MFAH, 1969.

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