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Glazed white clay body with lobed, bulbous base surmounted by narrow cylindrical neck terminating in circular mouth; stopper conical at top with wide flare to center tapered back to shank, fitted to neck; gilt overglaze hightlights on tip of stopper, around neck and on shoulder of body.
perfume bottles
earthenware
gilding
ironstone (pottery)
overglazing
vitrification
Ironstone
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Gilded
Overglazed
BOTTLE, TOILET
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
4.125 (H), 2.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.719AB
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