Figured Flask
Figured Flask
ManufacturerPossibly
Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works
(American, 1814-1841)
Place of OriginEastern United States; possibly Keens, New Hampshire, United States
Date1824-1840
Dimensions7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.536
Not on View
DescriptionBlown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.II-72) that formed body and base. On the obverse: an American eagle standing on a rocky formation. On the reverse: a cornucopia coiled to the left, filled with fruit and vegetables. The base is plain except for a keyed moldmark and a rough, open pontil mark. Capacity: 1 pint. Dark olive green glass.
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.II-72, pp. 548-549, no. 194, pp. 203-205.
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.II-72, pp. 573, 99-104, 441-445, 421-422.
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. 119, no. 59.
Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.
Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works
1815-1817 (if Keene) or 1817-1825 (if elsewhere)
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