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Figured Flask

ManufacturerPOSSIBLY Hammonton Glass Works (American, 1812-1857)

Place of Originpossibly Hammonton, New Jersey, United States

Dateabout 1840

Dimensions8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.369

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DescriptionLight greenish. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-55) that formed body and base. On the obverse: an American eagle with plain shield and 13 stars above. On the reverse: a large three-lobed bunch of grapes hanging from a stem with 2 large leaves. The base is plain except for a very faint, off-set keyed moldmark and a slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

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, p. 73, no. 55 (this piece).

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948; McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-55, p. 545, no. 177.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-55, pp. 569, 93-94, 441-445, 491.

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. 124, no. 74.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.