PATTERN-MOLDED TALL CRUET, medium to deep cobalt blue, small size, globular body with a long tapering neck, 24 vertical ribs, and a bold applied hollow handle, kick-up base with rough pontil mark, correct hollow unpatterned stopper. Pittsburgh, possibly Bakewell, Page & Bakewell(s); or successors. 1830-1860. 7 1/8" HOA.
Literature: Palmer - Pittsburgh Glass, p. 113, exhibit cat. 12. Parallels Innes - Pittsburgh Glass, color pl. 5, fig. 2.
Provenance: From the Peter H. Tillou estate, Litchfield, CT.
Having a loss of the lower curl to the lower terminal of the handle; no further damage. Stopper having some expected light roughness to the open extension, as made.