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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Coventry Glass Works (American, 1813-1850)

Manufacturer Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works (American, 1814-1841)

Place of OriginKeene, New Hampshire or Coventry, Connecticut, United States

Date1824-1836

Dimensions5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.397

Not on View

DescriptionOlive-green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.III-7) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a cornucopia coiled to the left, filled with fruit and vegetables. On the reverse: an urn filled with fruit and vegetables. The base is plain except for a moldmark offset toward the obverse and a slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half 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. 75, no. 68.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.III-7, pp. 550-551, no. 206.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.III-7, pp. 550-551, no. 206, pp. 588-589, 421-422.

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. 118, no. 56.