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Figured Flask

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company American, 1818-1888

ManufacturerPossibly Phoenix Glass Works American, 1819 or 1820-1870

ManufacturerPossibly South Boston Flint Glass Works American, 1813-1827

Place of OriginBoston, Massachusetts, United States

Date1815-1825

Dimensions7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.387

Not on View

Collections

Glass

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-76, p. 493, no. 12; pl. 249, no. 2; pp. 548-559, no. 198.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940," TMA Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 60.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-76, pp. 574-575, 104-106, 441-445; replica: pp. 688-690, pl. 156.

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. 111, no. 38, colorpl. 38, p. 78.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 131-132, repr. (col.) fig. 53B, p. 130.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.