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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Baltimore Glass Works (American, 1800 - 1880)

Place of OriginBaltimore, Maryland, United States

Date1847-1855

Dimensions7 3/16 in. (18.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.413

Not on View

DescriptionPale yellowish green. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.I-17) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a profile bust of George Washington in uniform. On the reverse: a profile bust of Zachary Taylor in uniform. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: 1 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. 48, no. 24.

References to glass classifications established in McKearin, 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.I-17, p. 517, no. 17.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-17, pp. 527, 71-77, 452, 454, no. 9; p. 481.

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. 125, no. 78.