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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Bridgeton Glass Works (American, 1836 or 1837-1855)

Place of OriginBridgeton, New Jersey, United States

Date1851-1855

Dimensions6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.389

Not on View

DescriptionLight aquamarine. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-111) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust said to be of Lajos Kossuth. On the reverse: a sloop sailing left. The base is plain except for the off-set keyed moldmark and a faint pontil mark. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S., and Helen A. McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.I-111, p. 534, no. 111.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-111, pp. 551, 132-133, 469-472, 493.

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. 128, no. 86.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.