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FREE-BLOWN CRUDE CREAM JUG, deep olive-green bottl

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FREE-BLOWN CRUDE CREAM JUG, deep olive-green bottle glass with some milky white surface splotches and streaks, heavy squat form with a crude applied handle having an over-sized thick crimped lower terminal, kick-up base with large rough pontil mark. Probably Saratoga/Congressville, NY Glass Works . 1850-1880. 4 1/2" high, 2 1/2" diameter rim, 4 1/4" diameter overall .
Reference: See McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 69, top right, for a nearly identical example.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., 7/31/86, lot #97, $385
Note: In McKearin's discussion of the Congressville factory on pp. 187-188 of American Glass, he states, "Each piece in the group by the top row of this Plate 69 is absolutely identified as having been made in the Congressville factory. They were all blown by one Morris Holmes, who when 10 years old began working in the Mountain factory as a carrying boy." McKearin goes on to note, "At the time we acquired our first examples of Saratoga glass we had several visits with Mr. Holmes who was then about 80 years of age and still had some 20 to 30 offhand pieces he had blown in the Congressville works."

Roughness and probable small loss to the handle terminal tip, one surface splotch with an open bubble and another with a tiny bruise and three radiating hairlines

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