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Flask

Place of Originprobably Eastern United States

Date1870-1900

Dimensions9 1/16 × 4 1/2 × 1 7/16 in. (23 × 11.5 × 3.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.235

Not on View

DescriptionMade of sixteen opaque white canes picked up on a small gather of colorless glass. Reheated, marvered, overlaid by a heavy layer of transparent light blue glass, twisted to the right, then blown and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 149, no. 144.Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.