American bar bottle 1850-1870 cut, not pressed, in the Ashburton pattern.  Lead glass, 10 1/8" tall with a polished pontil.  Bar bottles were made for hotels and other public drinking establishments. The Ashburton pattern is one of the earliest and most common pressed patterns in American glass.  Pressed bar bottles first appear in the 1840s.  It is unusual to find a bar bottle cut in an early pressed pattern because of the cost involved in making a utilitarian object.  Bar bottles did not have a stopper and would have been closed by a cork or metal pouring device. [lj/ld] [ph:L]

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