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8310 surface

8310 surface

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8305 painting

8305 painting

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8354 bottle laying flat

8354 bottle laying flat

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8351 cork or ? inside bottle lip

8351 cork or ? inside bottle lip

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8346 painting

8346 painting

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8345 bottom of painting on vessel

8345 bottom of painting on vessel

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8343 bottle neck imperfection

8343 bottle neck imperfection

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8340 base showing dregs

8340 base showing dregs

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8336 bottle shape

8336 bottle shape

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8329 slightly curved bottle neck 13" tall

8329 slightly curved bottle neck 13" tall

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8322 painting on front

8322 painting on front

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Chestnut Flask?

It has a cork (?) intact, dregs inside, painting on outside, neck of bottle is crooked not straight, neck glass shows imperfections, color is greenish, 13" tall.

Commentary:
Looking at the technology of this bottle, it seems this was blown into a mold and then had a tooled finish on the neck. This technology indicates that it is before 1910, when automatic bottle machines became the dominant means of bottle production, and probably the second half of the nineteenth century. The three-piece mold was patented in 1814, and that is my suspicion for the means of manufacture. The form is most like what is called a "Chestnut flask,' which was popular during the late 18th and very early nineteenth century, but they were continued to be made into the nineteenth century. Based on the form of the lip finish, I'd guess it is a late example of a chestnut flask, presuming that is what this is, and that puts it into the mid-nineteenth century.

I suspect the painting is a later addition. I found one earlier bottle on an auction house site but it provides no information about the painted component.

Overall, the bottle is an unusual shape, and the decoration makes it even more rare. It seems pretty well grounded as a nineteenth-century vessel, with the oldest possible date in the early nineteenth century and the most recent the late nineteenth or very early twentieth century. It is certainly an intriguing item, and does not fit into the easy categories used by archaeologists which tells you that it is not particularly common.
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