PATTERN-MOLDED BEEHIVE-FORM UTILITY BOTTLE
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PATTERN-MOLDED BEEHIVE-FORM UTILITY BOTTLE, aquamarine, body with 16 light vertical ribs broken by an undetermined number of ribs swirled to the left, medium neck and applied sloping mouth, kick-up base with rough pontil mark. Midwestern United States. 1800-1840. 8 3/4" H.
Literature: Parallels McKearin/Wilson - American Bottles, p. 354, pl. 94.
"Provenance: The Thomas Dale Barnes estate collection of Ojai, CA.
Property of his children."
Catalogue Note: Thomas Dale Barnes (1910-1991) was born in Grove City, Mercer Co., PA. He moved with his family to California in the late 1920s when his father, Dr. Morgan Barnes, an 1895 graduate of Harvard University accepted a teaching position at the innovative, outdoor-oriented Thacher School for Boys in the Ojai Valley. With encouragement from his parents, Tom assembled his bottle collection during the late 1920s and early 1930s from many of the pioneering dealers of the day including Earl and Rhea Mansfield Knittle of Ashland, OH. Copies of correspondences with the Knittles accompany this lot.
Literature: Parallels McKearin/Wilson - American Bottles, p. 354, pl. 94.
"Provenance: The Thomas Dale Barnes estate collection of Ojai, CA.
Property of his children."
Catalogue Note: Thomas Dale Barnes (1910-1991) was born in Grove City, Mercer Co., PA. He moved with his family to California in the late 1920s when his father, Dr. Morgan Barnes, an 1895 graduate of Harvard University accepted a teaching position at the innovative, outdoor-oriented Thacher School for Boys in the Ojai Valley. With encouragement from his parents, Tom assembled his bottle collection during the late 1920s and early 1930s from many of the pioneering dealers of the day including Earl and Rhea Mansfield Knittle of Ashland, OH. Copies of correspondences with the Knittles accompany this lot.
Condition
Undamaged with normal light wear and residue.
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- 20%
PATTERN-MOLDED BEEHIVE-FORM UTILITY BOTTLE
Estimate $200 - $300
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