Bottle: Prove all things Ben Franklin Bitters...
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1840-1865
Medium:
Glass, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 3 5/8 in. ( 25.4 x 9.2 cm )
Description:
Light green glass bitters bottle blown in a three-part mold with patent lip and rounded string rim, ball neck, conical body with horizontal ribbing and paper labels, and base with concave profile.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1653
Marks:
paper label: on obverse: "Prove all things."
paper label: on reverse: "BEN FRANKLIN BITTERS/ POOR RICHARD'S TONIC/ . . . PURELY/ Vegetable/ MATERIALS/ And as a Tonic cannot be/ surpassed/ G. Mansfield Rowland/ PROPRIETOR/ A Single Trial/ Will convince th
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
24250
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamps (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1855-1870
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
overall: 6 1/4 x 3 x 2 3/4 in.
Description:
Pair of green pressed lead glass oil lamps; hexagonal domed font with impressed oval cartouches on hexagonal pedestal base; lamp pressed in one multi-part mold; pewter threaded collar.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.919ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
24249
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
1830-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 1.3 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with plain edge; in well, faint impression of steamship passing under suspension bridge, with sun hanging above, and wavy sea filling entire foreground; on interior rim, pattern of attached circles (one small alternating with one large) with dot in center of each circle (Lee-Rose 636).
Object Number:
INV.14399b
Gallery Label:
These cup plates are usually referred to as "Maid of the Mist" patterns (See Publications).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24248
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. ( 1.3 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Light green pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with plain edge; in well, faint impression of steamship passing under suspension bridge, with sun hanging above, and wavy sea below; on interior rim, pattern of attached circles (one small alternating with one large) (Lee-Rose 635).
Credit Line:
Gift of Colonel Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number:
1982.67[dup]
Gallery Label:
The cup plate pattern is usually referred to as "Maid of the Mist."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24247
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle: Plantation Bitters, cabin shaped
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1865-1890
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 3 x 3 in. ( 26 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Amber glass bitters bottle (log cabin type) blown in a three-part mold with deep down-tooled collar, three-tiered hipped roof with vertical ribbing and inscriptions "DRAKES PLANTATION BITTERS" and "PATENTED 1862," square body with broad horizontal ribs, and base with circular depression.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1047
Marks:
in relief: on obverse (roof): "DRAKES / PLANTATION / BITTERS"
in relief: on reverse (roof): "PATENTED / 1862"
Gallery Label:
In his researches into patented cabin bottle designs, Arthur G. Peterson found that the first such design was patented February 18, 1862, by P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York (McKearin and Wilson, "American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry," p. 302).
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
24246
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bitters bottle
Classification:
Date:
1865-1890
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 3 x 3 in. ( 26 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Deep amber glass bitters bottle (log cabin type) blown in a three-part mold with deep down-tooled collar, three-tiered hipped roof with vertical ribbing and inscriptions "S T DRAKE'S 1860 PLANTATION X BITTERS" and "PATENTED 1862," square body with broad horizontal ribs, and base with diagonal seam and circular depression.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.414
Marks:
in relief: on obverse (roof): "S T / DRAKE'S / 1860 / PLANTATION / X / BITTERS"
in relief: on reverse (roof): "PATENTED / 1862"
Gallery Label:
In his researches into patented cabin bottle designs, Arthur G. Peterson found that the first such design was patented February 18, 1862, by P. H. Drake of Binghamton, New York (McKearin and Wilson, "American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry," p. 302).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
24245
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 29.2 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; spherical font on peg support joined by bobeche to candlestick-type base with inverted baluster support with molded shells and "C" scrolls to circular trumpet-shaped base with molded shells and three scroll feet.
Object Number:
INV.511
Gallery Label:
Though stylistically it appears to date to the early nineteenth-century, the only published parallel to this lamp is French or Belgian and dates to the late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
24244
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp w/stone base
Classification:
Date:
1840-1870
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 5/8 x 4 in. ( 24.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Lead glass oil lamp with mold blown font and pressed base; colorless, thistle-shaped font joined to pressed, opaque white base beneath brass collar; base is trumpet-shaped, with square plinth; brass collar on top of font.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.312
Provenance:
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
24243
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerosene lamps (pair)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
each: 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Description:
Pair of opaque blue glass lamps blown in a three-part mold with molded scrolled hearts with tin kerosene wick holder and opaque white glass shade molded with foliate motifs, a cross and a star.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1521ab
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
24242
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Kerosene lamp
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. ( 13.3 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Opaque blue glass lamp blown in a three-part mold with molded scrolled hearts with tin kerosene wick holder and opaque white glass shade molded with foliate motifs, a cross and a star.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.1521b
Gallery Label:
This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
24241
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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