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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Hammonton Glass Works (American, 1812-1857)

Manufacturer Winslow Glass Works

Place of OriginHammonton, New Jersey, United States

Date1836-1838, possibly later

Dimensions8 1/4 in. (21 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.379

Not on View

DescriptionYellowish green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-48) that formed body and base. On the obverse: an eagle with rays above and grasping an oval cartouche in its talons. On the reverse: an American flag with 19 stars furled around a standard. The base is plain except for a slight kick-up and a rough, open 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. 61, no. 37.

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-48, p. 544, no. 170.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-48, pp. 567, 93-94, 441-446.

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. 122, no. 70, colorpl. 70, p. 79.