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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Hammonton Glass Works (American, 1812-1857)

Place of Originprobably Hammonton, New Jersey, United States

Date1836-1845; possibly later

Dimensions7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.407

Not on View

DescriptionLight green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.X-1) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a stag enclosed by multiple ribs. On the reverse: a weeping-willow tree enclosed by multiple ribs. The base is plain except for a keyed moldmark and a slightly rough, open 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.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.X-1, pp. 578-579, no. 368.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.X-1, pp. 628-629, 93-94, 495.

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. 122, no. 69.