New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Perfume Bottle

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818 - 1888)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1869

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.3813

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 1, Section 1 Sh1

DescriptionPerfume bottle and stopper of opalescent pressed glass. Bottle is hexagonal shape with an oval thumbprint center. Six solid bracket-shaped protrusions at bottom. Hexagonal rim. Nick bottom center, probably done when it was made. Stopper matches. Solid flat stopper.

Published ReferencesL.W. Watkins, _Cambridge Glass_, pg. 107 top right (Copy of N E Glass Co. Catalogue page). Nancy O. Merrill, "Collection Spotlight: Sheherazade," Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 6, (The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, June 1985).