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Figured Flask

Place of Originprobably United States; possibly Europe

Date1845-1855

Dimensions7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.414

Not on View

DescriptionLight bluish-green glass. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.X-23) that formed body and base. On the obverse: Liberty seated with a shield on the ground to the left supported by her right hand and a liberty cap on a pole held up by her left hand, with rays and a banner above. On the reverse: a log cabin, a pump, and a tree. Double-ring collar applied and finished with a tool. The slightly concave oval base is plain except for an almost imperceptible moldmark and a small nipple at the center. 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.X-23, pp. 581-582, no. 390; p. 499, no. 32.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 499.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 60.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.X-23, pp. 633, 447-450, 504, no. 23.

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. 124, no. 75.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.