American Flint Glass Company
Pocket Bottle

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MakerAttributed to American Flint Glass CompanyAmerican, 1764–1774

Factory owner Henry William StiegelAmerican, 1729–1785

CultureAmerican

Titles

Pocket Bottle

Datec. 1764–1774

Made inManheim, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumPotash-lime glass

Dimensions4 7/8 × 3 11/16 × 2 3/4 in. (12.4 × 9.4 × 7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.57.2

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Washington Hall

On view

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

Description

These pattern molded pocket bottles represent yet another type associated with the Stiegel factory. The pattern visually approximates the effect of faceted cut glass.

Related examples: Six at Winterthur (Palmer 1993, p. 361, no. 353); PMA (Garvan 1982, pp. 241–42, nos. 13–18); McKearin and McKearin 1941, pl. 232, no. 1.

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[McKearin’s Antiques, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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