Stoneware beer bottle used by the Gipfel Union Brewery, Milwaukee, mid-nineteenth century.
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- Created Date
- 1853-1892
- Description
Impressed bottler's mark: "Chs. Gipfel/ Milwaukee" in shield with star at center.
This salt-glazed stoneware bottle has a straight-sided cylindrical lip and bands of cobalt blue glaze around the shoulder. The serpentine wire bail around the neck would have been used to secure a cork.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Ceramics
Pottery
Stoneware
Bottle
Vessel (container)
Container (receptacle)
Furnishings and equipment
Merchandising Tools and Equipment - Type
- physical object
- Format
- Salt-glazed stoneware
- Rights
- (c) 2007 by the Milwaukee Public Museum. Contact the owner for more information. http://www.mpm.edu/collections/dept/history.php
- Chicago citation style
- Stoneware beer bottle used by the Gipfel Union Brewery, Milwaukee, mid-nineteenth century.. 1853-1892. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wda/id/631. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1853-1892) Stoneware beer bottle used by the Gipfel Union Brewery, Milwaukee, mid-nineteenth century.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wda/id/631
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wda/id/631>.