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Figured Flask

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

Place of OriginBridgeton, New Jersey, United States

Date1847-1855

Dimensions6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.396

Not on View

DescriptionDeep olive-amber bottle. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-24) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust of George Washington in uniform. On the reverse: a profile bust of Zachary Taylor in uniform. The base is plain except for a moldmark offset toward the reverse that joins the two medial ribs and a rough, open 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. 63, no. 39.

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-24, p. 518, no. 24.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-24, pp. 529, 132-133, 450-454, no. 17; 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. 125, no. 77.