Flask

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Object Name: 
Flask
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably OH, Zanesville
Accession Number: 
50.4.113
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.6 cm, W (max): 7.75 cm, D (max):18.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800-1825
Primary Description: 
Flask. Non-lead glass, brilliant amber; pattern-molded and free-blown; chestnut shape, long slender neck spreading slightly to sheared mouth; slightly rough pontil mark on base; pattern of expanded broken-swirl design.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1923
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
amber
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09
 

Publications (4)

Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 50, #23; BIB# 34475
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 20, 92, pl. 26; BIB# 33046
Die Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts (1966) illustrated, p. 281, ill. 297a; BIB# 163717
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #4, pl. 234; BIB# 25297