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Figured Flask

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1858-1875

DimensionsH 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.)

MediumAquamarine glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. H. F. Hastings, in memory of her mother, Mrs. A. M. Bachmann

Object number

1951.298

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a two-piece mold (McKearin G.XI-30) that formed body and base (McKearin Type 7). On the obverse: a prospector wearing a cap, walking left with a walking stick in his right hand and carrying a stick with bag over his left shoulder, above an oval empty cartouche. On the reverse: an American eagle with banner floating from its beak, holding six arrows in its talons, above a rectangular cartouche. Lip reheated and tooled. Applied flat collar below lip. The moldmark on the base extends in the center 2.2 cm (7/8 in.) from each side of the flask, then forms a semicircle around a concave area in the center of the base, simulating a pontil mark. No pontil mark. Capacity: 1 quart.

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 214, fig. 212, no. 1; pp. 215-218, 224, fig. 221 (William McCully and Company catalogue, May 1, 1875, price list for flasks, including "Pike's Peak Style, Quart . . . gross $24.00")

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978 G.XI-30, pp. 640-641, 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. 93.