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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Granite Glass Works (American, 1846-1872)

Place of OriginStoddard, New Hampshire, United States

Date1850-1860

Dimensions7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.400

Not on View

DescriptionDeep reddish amber. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin and Wilson G.XV-7) of two vertical sections and a base plate. Both sides plain except for the inscriptions. Double-ring lip applied and finished by tooling. The base is plain except for a concave recess in the center. No pontil mark. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 205.

Field, Anne E., On the Trail of Stoddard Glass, Dublin, N.H., W. L. Bauhan, 1975, ill. p. 54, no. 1.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.XV-7, pp. 674-675, 147-149.

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. 88.