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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Willington Glass Works (American)

Place of OriginWest Willington, Connecticut, United States

Date1855-1872

Dimensions6 5/16 in. (16.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.406

Not on View

DescriptionDeep olive-green. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.II-63) of two vertical sections and a base plate. On the obverse: an American eagle above crossed laurel branches. The reverse is plain except for the inscription. Applied round reinforced tooled collar. The base is plain. No 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. 60, no. 35.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, G.II-63, p. 546, no. 185.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.II-63, pp. 571, 111-112, 441-445.

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. 129, no. 90.