Unknown American
Pocket Bottle

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Maker Unknown American

CultureAmerican

Titles

Pocket Bottle

Datec. 1815–1845

Made inUnited States

MediumNonlead glass

Dimensions6 1/4 in. height (15.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.58.30

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Pine Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionThe ridge just below the neck of this bottle is a result of the manufacturing process called the half-post method, meaning that a second gather of molten glass was applied to the first, without covering it completely. The glassblower impressed a pattern on each gather with a dip mold, resulting in both vertical and swirled ridges.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Lebanon, Pennsylvania; [Samuel H. Laidacker (1904–1994), Bristol, Pennsylvania]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1958; given to MFAH, by 1966.

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