Collection Highlights
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"
Date:
1810
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1810.94
SUPPORT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Help us present groundbreaking exhibitions and develop educational programs about our nation's history for more than 200,000 schoolchildren annually.
Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bottle
Object Number:
1949.239b
Date:
1821-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 3 in. ( 20.3 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Black glass bottle blown in three-part Ricketts-type mold with base molded separately; with two-part finish, slightly bulged neck, rounded shoulder, cylindrical body, and circular depression in base.
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was found by Joseph Rapport and Richard Koke of the New-York Historical Society in Battery Park in 1949 in the excavations for Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass. A patent was granted to Henry Ricketts in 1821 for his three-part bottle mold which included a fourth mold part, i.e. a base-molding section. English and American glasshouses used molds of this type, although they were not necessarily Ricketts' patented molds.
Credit Line:
Found by Joseph Rapport and Richard Koke of the N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
