- Pocket Bottle
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This little pocket bottle is unusual on two counts. It is a rare example of the form blown into a three-part geometric mold. The diamond and floral motif in the lower section of this pattern echoes the diamond and daisy pattern found on eighteenth-century pocket bottles associated with the factories of Stiegel and others. In addition, this bottle is unusually small.
Related examples: Two at Winterthur (Palmer 1993, pp. 374–75, nos. 381–82); another blue one at Yale (Palmer 1993, p. 375).
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.
ProvenanceAlberta Rogers Patterson, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania; Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, American Bottles and Blown Glass—The Collection of Alberta Rogers Patterson, September 17–18, 1993, lot 181; [W. M. Schwind, Jr., Antiques, Yarmouth, Maine]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
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