Pocket Flask
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Pocket Flask
Place of OriginEurope, possibly Scandinavia
Date1850-1865
Dimensions5 3/8 × 1 1/16 × 2 1/2 × 4 5/16 in. (13.7 × 2.7 × 6.4 × 11 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.404
Not on View
DescriptionBlue non-lead glass blown in a full-size female mold of two vertical sections (not in McKearin) that formed the body, the short rectangular base, and most of the neck. On the obverse, a deer with a hunter behind it to the left and a hound in front jumping at the deer's throat, with a foliate branch of flowers in an arc above. On the reverse, a boar's head within a circle with a foliate branch and flowers in an arc above. Lip formed by tooling. Faint pontil mark.
Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 787, no. 1336.Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.Unidentified, Gorgoneion Group
about 560 BCE
4th century CE
Pierre Delabarre
Glass: before 1630; Mount: c. 1630; Case: c. 1700
Probably 1st century BCE, possibly later
late 19th century, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
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