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Figured Flask

ManufacturerAttributed to Hammonton Glass Works (American, 1812-1857)

Manufacturer Winslow Glass Works

Place of OriginHammonton, New Jersey, United States

Date1836-1838; possibly later

Dimensions6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.382

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DescriptionBlown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-54) that formed body and base. On the obverse: an eagle with rays above and grasping a shield in its talons, with olive and laurel branches below. On the reverse: an American flag with 20 stars furled around a standard. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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-54, p. 545, no. 176.

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, p. 93, fig. 74; pp. 94-97.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-54, 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. 73.