Figured Flask

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Figured Flask

ManufacturerPossibly Kentucky Glass Works (American, 1850-1855)

Place of OriginMidwest United States, possibly Kentucky

Date1850-1855

Dimensions7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.386

Not on View

DescriptionDeep yellow-green. Blown in a full-size two- or three-part mold (McKearin G.II-24) that formed body and base. On both sides: an American eagle and olive branch and arrows, with a banner and fourteen stars above and grasping an oval cartouche containing an eight-pointed ornament. The base is plain except for two parallel moldmarks 0.6 cm (1/4 in.) apart through the longitudinal center and a rough, open 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, p. 58, no. 32.

McKearin, George S., and Helen A. McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.II-24, pp. 540-541, no. 146.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-24, pp. 562-563, 169-173, 441-445.

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. 128, no. 87.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.