Pickle Bottle

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Maker Unknown American

CultureAmerican

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Pickle Bottle

Datec. 1850–1860

Possible placeBoston area, Massachusetts, United States

MediumSoda-lime glass

Dimensions11 3/16 × 3 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (28.4 × 9.2 × 8.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.75.30

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

Description

Technical notes: Paper label on bottom that reads “197” in faded ink.

Related examples: Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, with original label (McKearin and Wilson 1978, pl. 73, no. 10); another with fragmentary Boston-area label (McKearin and Wilson 1978, pl. 74, no. 12).

Related examples with traces of original paper labels indicate that this stylish type of Gothic ornamented pickle bottle was intended for commercial rather than domestic use.

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; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, 1975.
Published References Howe, Katherine S., and David B. Warren. The Gothic Revival Style in America, 1830−1870. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1976, p. 69, no. 139.

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