Double Head-shaped Flask (Sprinkler): Two Similar Smiling Faces
Date: Nineteenth century
Dimensions:
H: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm); H (body): 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); Max Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm);
Diam Rim: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm); Diam Base (nose to nose): 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Medium: Rim and neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections, each including part of the base.
Place of Origin: Perhaps United States
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.513
DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Medium thin glass. Blowing spirals. Numerous medium and small bubbles, vertically elongated in neck, spherical in body. Black specks in neck and rim. One continuous mold seam concealed in hair at junction of heads, extends across underside of base. U-shaped lock in mold seam in center of underside of base. Relief crisp. No pontil mark.
Horizontal hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Short tubular neck, with constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of 0.8 cm. Body in the shape of a double head. Oval flat base.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2).
Rim and neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections, each including part of the base. One continuous mold seam concealed in hair at junction of heads, extends across underside of base. U-shaped lock in mold seam in center of underside of base. Relief crisp. No pontil mark.
Horizontal hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Short tubular neck, with constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of 0.8 cm. Body in the shape of a double head. Oval flat base.
For description, see Cat. No. 166.
Horizontal hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Short tubular neck, with constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of 0.8 cm. Body in the shape of a double head. Oval flat base.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2).
Rim and neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections, each including part of the base. One continuous mold seam concealed in hair at junction of heads, extends across underside of base. U-shaped lock in mold seam in center of underside of base. Relief crisp. No pontil mark.
Horizontal hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Short tubular neck, with constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of 0.8 cm. Body in the shape of a double head. Oval flat base.
For description, see Cat. No. 166.
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