Unidentified
Bottle
1750-1850
Physical Qualities
Glass, 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. (24.1 x 14.9 x 12.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Alice Farley, Baltimore, from the Collection of Frederic H. Farley
Object Number
1993.431
On the table are two free-blown bottles, used to preserve and serve liquids. They were made by blowing bursts of air into molten glass on the end of a blowpipe and shaping the forms with tools. First attempted by English colonizers in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608, glassmaking became a small-scale industry along the East Coast, but most glass was imported from Europe until the 1880s.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1993; Frederic H. and Alice Farley, Baltimore, MD.
Inscribed: Etched on the neck: "UC"
Maker
Unidentified
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Eltonhead
