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Figured Flask

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1847-1855

Dimensions8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.372

Not on View

DescriptionLight amethyst. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-46) 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 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. 43, no. 13.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.I-46, pp. 522-523, no. 46.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-46, pp. 535, 450-454, 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. 127, no. 84.