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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Kensington Glass Works (American, 1816-1833)

Place of OriginKensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1826-1835

Dimensions6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.360

Not on View

DescriptionDeep blue. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-14) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of George Washington in uniform. On the reverse: an American eagle with rays above and grasping an oval cartouche in its talons. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a rough pontil mark. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, pp. 41-42, no. 6 (sketch).

Helen McKearin, Bottles, Flasks, and Dr. Dyott, New York, Crown, 1970, G.I-14, p. 95, no. 1 (14).

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-14, pp. 526-527, 79-88, 441-445, 450-454, no. 6.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 48, bottom illus., top row, fourth from left.

Wilson, 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. 113, no. 45, colorpl. 45, p. 79.