Artist/Maker
American Flint Glass Works
Artist/Maker
Henry William Stiegel
Pitcher: pocket bottle
1769-1774
Place madePennsylvania, United States, North America
Glass
Overall: 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 3 in. ( 14 x 9.5 x 7.6 cm )
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
1952.195
Henry William Stiegel's American Flint Glass Works in Manheim, PA was one of the first successfully opperated glass houses in Colonial America. This bottle is attributed to Stiegel on the basis of similar examples that were found in Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, and the absence of any known European or English counterparts.
DescriptionAmethyst, non-lead, blown glass pocket bottle with cylindrical, flared neck, compressed spherical body pattern-molded with two rows of five diamonds each containing a twelve-petal flower over thirty vertical ribs (the so-called diamond and daisy pattern), and a push-up with a pontil mark.ClassificationsGLASS