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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Description
Primary Description:
Flask. Clear glass with smoky-greenish tinge and minute bubbles; wear marks; free blown and engraved; flattened oval body with rough pontil mark at base and short cylindrical neck slightly flaring at thickened rim; on body a medallion formed by two leaf-and flower sprays and enclosing the name: "F. Stenger: 1792", on the reverse a circular medallion formed by two slender leaf sprays joined at top and bottom by a four petaled flower and enclosing a bottle, a plow, and Masonic trowel and square.
Exhibitions (2)

Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1976-05 through 1976-11

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 (12)
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976)
illustrated, pp. 72-73, #12 fig. 31 A-B;
BIB# AI6136
Glass terminology: a German-English Glossary / compiled and published by Benedict Kolthoff (1966)
illustrated, pl. VI (right);
BIB# 131404
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950)
pl. 104, pp. 328-329;
BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950)
pl. 104, pp. 328-329;
BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950)
pl. 104, pp. 328-329;
BIB# 96725