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18th c. European Double Magnum Onion Bottle
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A large European (North Germany or Northeast France) onion-shaped storage bottle (double magnum), c. 1740-60. Dark olive green glass. No pontil scar, although the mark of the tool ("molette") used to make the shallow push-up in the bottom is clearly visible. Roughly overlapped European-type string rim and untooled lip. Large and small bubbles throughout the glass. Rim chips, surface scratches and scuffing, but no cracks. Height: 30.3 cm. (11 15/16"). Width: 20.9 cm. (8 1/4"). Capacity (when filled to bottom of string rim): 437.5 cl. (8 1/4 pints). Large bottles such as this, often with flattened sides, were used to store wine, brandy, vinegar, oils, and pharmaceutical liquids. Made in northern Germany, northeastern France and Belgium, they were exported to other parts of Europe where locally made glass bottles were unavailable. Many German bottles of this large capacity were made for the English market. See Willy Van den Bossche, "Antique Glass Bottles: Their History and Evolution (1500-1850)", for related examples (pages 142, 149, 247, 309 & 331). Quite coincidentally, about 20 years ago I recovered an identical bottle neck along with other 18th-century artifacts from a utility trench in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Harvard Yard, at a site which in colonial times was quite near the tidal shoreline of the Charles River. The fragment (see the last three photos) has the iridescence which comes from long burial. At the time I thought it might be from a large 17th-century shaft-and-globe bottle, but now I know better.
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