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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Coventry Glass Works (American, 1813-1850)

Place of OriginCoventry, Connecticut, United States

Date1832-1840

Dimensions7 in. (17.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.393

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DescriptionOlive-green glass. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-33) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust of George Washington in uniform. On the reverse: a profile bust of Andrew Jackson in uniform. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a rough pontil mark. Capacity: 1 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. 76, no. 9, repr. as painting frontis. (Washington) and facing page (Jackson).

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-33, p. 519, no. 33.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-33, pp. 531, 450-454, 475-478.

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. 119, no. 61.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939