Pocket Flask

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Object Name: 
Pocket Flask
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Manheim
Accession Number: 
50.4.22
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.3 cm; Body W: 7.8 cm, D: 10 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1765-1774
Primary Description: 
Pocket Flask. Non-lead glass, deep rich amethyst; pattern-molded and free-blown; bulbous body, short cylindrical neck with plain lip; patterned in diamond-daisy design.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1925
to
1950-07-31
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
amethyst
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
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 (17)

Henry William Stiegel (2012-12-12) illustrated
American Antiques and Collectibles (2001) illustrated, p. 270; BIB# 76353
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 6, 91, pl. 4; BIB# 33046
A Catalogue of American Antiques (1990) illustrated, p. 98; BIB# 69239
Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) illustrated, pl. 47, fourth from left; BIB# 22375
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, p. 87, #110; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, p. 83, #104; BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, p. 81, #94; BIB# 27746
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1955) (1955) illustrated, p. 67, #74; BIB# 28450
The Story of Glass (1953) illustrated, plate 14-15 (fig. e); BIB# 25461
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, col. pl. 1, p. 4; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, col. pl. 1, p. 4; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) col. pl. 1, p. 4; BIB# 76944
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #1, pl. 231; p. 435; BIB# 25297
A Glimpse of Early Glass (1930) illustrated, p. 138; BIB# AI96592
Early American glass : catalogue of examples selected from the private collection of George S. McKearin shown at Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition at the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, September 25th to October 9th, 1929 (1929) illustrated, #154; BIB# 73821
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #124; BIB# 28050