Stretched Phillips Milk of Magnesia Bottle Vase Cobalt Blue Art Glass Bud Vase 9 In

Details

Description

Cobalt blue art glass bud vase made from a stretched Phillips Milk of Magnesia bottle. This vintage glass bottle was … Read more Cobalt blue art glass bud vase made from a stretched Phillips Milk of Magnesia bottle. This vintage glass bottle was heated and pulled into a tall, sinuous vase form; the bottle's embossed lettering is still visible, distorted, winding around the body. Features a flared ruffled mouth (the bottle's original lip) and a twisted folded base.

Dimensions: 9 inches tall x 3.25 inches wide at the widest point.

Condition: Very good condition, no chips or cracks noted. No maker's signature — the "maker" is the unknown glassworker who stretched it.

A note on this piece: this vase began life as a Phillips Milk of Magnesia bottle — the cobalt blue glass that protected the medicine from light is the source of that deep, saturated color. Sometime in the mid-century decades, a glassworker heated the bottle and pulled it, the way you'd pull taffy, drawing the neck out into this long sinuous curve while the embossed lettering stretched and distorted along with the glass — you can still read its ghost winding around the body. Stretched bottles were sold as novelties, gift-shop pieces, and carnival prizes, and no two ever pulled exactly alike: each one is a small act of folk recycling, decades before 'upcycled' was a word. See less