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Figured Flask

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

Place of OriginKeene, New Hampshire, United States

Date1822-1830

Dimensions5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.401

Not on View

DescriptionDeep olive-green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.VIII-8) that formed body and base. On both sides: a sunburst of twenty-eight rays radiating from a raised central cartouche. The base is plain except for a keyed moldmark and a slightly rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: 1 pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.VIII-8, p. 567, no. 292; pp. 203-205.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.VIII-8, pp. 610-611, 99-104, 420-421.

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. 112, no. 42.