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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Baltimore Glass Works (American, 1800 - 1880)

Place of OriginBaltimore, Maryland, United States

Date1846-1850

Dimensions6 15/16 in. (17.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.388

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DescriptionVery light green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-71) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust of Zachary Taylor in uniform. On the reverse: a profile bust of Samuel Ringgold in uniform. The base is plain except for a faint moldmark and a very light 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. 43, no. 17.

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.I-71, p. 526, no. 71; p. 466; pl. 247, no. 8.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-71, pp. 542-543, 71-77, 463-465, pl. 127A, B; pp. 481-484.

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. 124, no. 76.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.