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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 OriginUnited States, Massachusetts, Boston

Date1815-1825

Dimensions7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.387

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DescriptionLight green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-76) that formed the body and base. On both sides: an eagle surrounded by concentric rings. The base is plain except for a rough, solid 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-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.