Catalog: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art (239)

Fenton Hobnail milk glass has become an institution. Never has a glass pattern met with such enduring popularity. It is as beautiful as it is authentic in its early American styling. It's beauty is timeless.

Each glass is 7" tall. The opening of the bowl is 2 1/2" in diameter.

This is hallmarked "Roseville U.S.A. and style number.

There are no chips, no cracks, and no repairs to this item. This item is in excellent condition.

Much of the paint design is worn off.

These bottles have sold in the past for upwards of $325.00 for clear ones.

Weeping bottles are occasionally seen in the hands of Grecian-dressed mourners on monuments in New England cemetaries, particularly that of Green-Wood in New York, where a life size mourner is depicted holding such a bottle up to her eye to save her tears. The concept is based on a verse from Psalm 56:8, where David returns from losing a battle and cries out to God. Hast Thou not saved by tears in Thy bottle? The idea of God saving mourners' tears of grief appealed to Victorian religious beliefs, and thus women would hold these receptacles up to their eyes, saving their tears, and keeping the container on their dressing table. Some traditional accounts hold that the weeping bottles would then be emptied over the grave on the first anniversary of their death.

These bottles are in excellent condition. They are 7" tall.