Figured Flask

Manufacturer Albany Glass Works (American, about 1847-1850)

Place of OriginAlbany, New York, United States

Date1847-1850

Dimensions7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.368

Not on View

DescriptionYellowish green. Blown in a full-size mold (McKearin G.I-28) of two vertical sections and a base plate. On the obverse: a three-quarter profile bust of George Washington in civilian dress. On the reverse: a vessel sailing right. Broad, sloping collar applied and shaped with a special lip-forming tool. The base is plain except for a moldmark and a red iron-oxide pontil mark in a circular center concavity. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesBarber, Edwin Atlee, American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual for Collectors of Historical Bottles, Philadelphia, Patterson and White, 1900, pp. 66-67, no. 48.

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.I-28, pp. 518-519, no. 28.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 20.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, G.I-28, pp. 530-531, 146, 450-454, no. 19, pp. 492-493.

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. 125, no. 79.