Onion Shaped Bottle from Harmony Hall

This is a dark olive green early wine or spirits bottle from one of the most intact, oldest historic period archeological sites in the National Capital Region, and is remarkably intact. This bottle was free blown, meaning it was made by hand by a glass-blower. It is globular bodied or "onion-shaped" with a fire polished finish. It has a "sand type" pontil. It is likely that this bottle is of English or Dutch manufacture, and then transported to the early colonies sometime between 1690 and 1720. Bottles of this type would have been a common household item in the Colonial Period, but many of them have not survived.