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Florentine Bottle
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This is a free-blown green glass container with a long neck, a round squat body and an applied curved spout. Florentine bottles were used for the distillation of flower oils. According to Robert J. Forbes in his book, <i>The Short History of the Art of Distillation</i>, page 260, the term Florentine Bottle goes back no further than the mid-19th century.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineFlorentine Bottle. 17th-18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
