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Figured Flask

Manufacturer Baltimore Glass Works (American, 1800 - 1880)

Place of OriginBaltimore, Maryland

Date1825-1830

DimensionsH: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm)

MediumPuce-colored glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.65

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a full-size two-part mold (McKearin G.VI-2) that formed body and base. On the obverse: the Washington Monument in Baltimore. On the reverse: a sloop sailing right. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, 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.VI-2, p. 563, no. 273.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.VI-2, pp. 605, 71-77, 472-474, 493.

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. 116, no. 53.