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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Hammonton Glass Works (American, 1812-1857)

Place of OriginHammonton, New Jersey, United States

Date1836-1838, possibly later

Dimensions6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.381

Not on View

DescriptionLight yellowish green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-53) that formed body and base. On the obverse: an American eagle with rays above and grasping a shield in its talons, with laurel and palm branches below. On the reverse: an American flag with twenty stars furled around a standard. The base is plain except for a faint moldmark 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. 42, no. 8.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.II-53, pp. 544-545, no. 175.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-53, pp. 568-569, 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. 123, no. 72.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.