Description:
Colorless pressed glass bar bottle; in a female mold, probably of two vertical sections in the form of a cylinder bearing the Reeded pattern with a plain section above; with a plain base plate that formed the base; plain upper section reheated and tooled to form the neck and heavy curved over lip, polished pontil mark. The stopper that came with this bar bottle does not go with this object; this object would not have had a stopper; The stopper is a colorless glass blown molded (vertical ribs) hollow ball with a smaller lower end to fit a decanter's neck. Stopper would perhaps be New England, c. 1820-40 in date. In the image for HD 2003.25.18.7, this bar bottle is on the far left hand side - in one from the left. The Reeded pattern is illustrated in the New England Glass Company 1869 catalogue (see Watkins, "Pressed," pp. 154-55, fig. 5) but was undoubtedly made earlier.
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