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Figured Flask

Place of OriginPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date1858-1875

Dimensions9 in. (22.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.417

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DescriptionDeep aquamarine coloring. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.XI-8) that formed body and base. On the obverse: a prospector with pickax, pack, and cane walking left on the top rim of a rectangular cartouche. On the reverse: an American eagle with banner above and oval cartouche below. Applied flat tooled collar. The base has a keyed moldmark; a domed circular depression in the center imitates a pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.XI-8, pp. 636-637, 496-499.

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. 130, no. 92.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.