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Figured Flask

ManufacturerProbably Granite Glass Works (American, 1846-1872)

Place of Originprobably Stoddard, New Hampshire, United States

Date1855-1860

Dimensions9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.439

Not on View

DescriptionDeep olive-green coloring. Blown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-78) that formed body and base. On both sides: a sketchy American eagle with banner above and a plain oval cartouche below. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a slightly rough 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.II-78, pp. 574-575, 147-149, 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. 89.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.