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Flask

Manufacturer J. Shepard & Co., White Glass Works (American)

Place of OriginZanesville, Ohio, United States

Date1822-1838

Dimensions6 13/16 in. (17.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.409

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionDeep olive-amber glass. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.IV-32) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a Masonic arch and pavement, within which are the "farmer's arms." On the reverse: an American eagle with rays above and grasping an oval cartouche in its talons. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a 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.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.IV-32, pp. 558-559, no. 249; p. 226.

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.IV-32, pp. 599, 436-445.

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.); p. 115, no. 50.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 131-132, repr. (col.) fig. 53A, p. 130.

Exhibition HistoryZanesville, Ohio, Zanesville Art Institute, March 1944.