Figural Bottles

It is impossible to list the hundreds of types of “figural” bottles. Any bottle that is shaped like a recognizable person or object is a figural bottle. Some large whiskey flasks—either ceramic or glass—and decorative bottles that held pancake syrup, mustard, ink, or any of the many products sold in fancy bottles, are included. Bottles were made in the shape of clocks, cabins, fish, acrobats, barrels, or houses. Although figural bottles were made before the 1850s, they were especially popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.