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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Dyottville Glass Works (American, 1833-1923)

Place of OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1847-1855

Dimensions8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.367

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionDeep aquamarine. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-37) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust of George Washington in classical dress. On the reverse: a profile bust of Zachary Taylor in uniform. The base is plain except for a faint moldmark and a very rough, large, open pontil mark. Capacity: 1 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. 42, no. 9 (sketch).

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.I-37, p. 520, no. 37.

Helen McKearin, Bottles, Flasks, and Dr. Dyott, New York, Crown, 1970, pp. 99-121.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-37, pp. 532-533, 87-88, 450-454, no. 21; pp. 481-484.

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. 126, no. 81.