PATTERN-MOLDED PUNGENTS / SCENT BOTTLES, LOT OF TWO, medium and deep cobalt blue, each flattened ovoid form, each molded with 20 distinct vertical ribs, plain mouth and rough pontil mark. Thomas Cains, at his South Boston Flint Glass Works or Cains' Glass House and others. Late 18th/mid 19th century. 2 7/8" and 3" H.
Literature: Parallels Kaiser - The Glass Industry in South Boston, p. 57, fig. 49; and McKearin/Wilson, American Bottles & Flasks, pp. 372, 373, fig. 13.

Glass deaccessioned by the Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. All proceeds will go toward the museum's Collections Acquisition Fund.
Ex-collection of Stanley B. and Phebe Pearsall Ineson, Manchester, VT. 

One undamaged, other with a vertical sliver chip/roughness from base, probably as made, and some interior dirt.