Bottle, 1738–ca. 1777, Made in Alloway, New Jersey, United States, American, Free-blown glass, H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm), Glass, Probably Wistarburgh Glassworks, This glass dog, or schnapshund, is an interesting example of a traditional German form persisting in late eighteenth-century colonial America. Popular from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, these glass drinking vessels were novelty objects created by glassblowers in the area now known as Germany
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Bottle, 1738–ca, 1777, Alloway, New Jersey, United States, American, Free-blown glass, H, 6 1/2, 16.5 cm, Glass, probably, Wistarburgh Glassworks, glass, dog, schnapshund, interesting example, traditional German, form, persisting, late eighteenth-century, colonial, America, Popular, seventeenth, nineteenth century, glass drinking, vessels, novelty objects, created, glassblowers, area now, Germany
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