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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Lancaster Glass Works (American, 1849-1904 or 1908)

Place of OriginLancaster, New York, United States

Date1849-1860

Dimensions6 11/16 in. (17 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.405

Not on View

DescriptionDeep aquamarine. Blown in a full-size mold (variant of McKearin G.V-1) of two vertical sections and a base plate. On both sides: a locomotive. The base is plain except for a 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.V-1, pp. 560-561, no. 260.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 90.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.V-1, pp. 602-603, 144-146, 493-494.

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. 127, no. 85.

Comparative References"Success to the Railroad" flasks made by the Lancaster Glass Works are much flatter in cross section than those made earlier elsewhere; see also Cat. No. 60.