Scroll Flask

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Object Name: 
Scroll Flask
Place Made: 
United States, probably Midwestern
Accession Number: 
87.4.34
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 31.2 cm, W: 16.3 cm, L: 23.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1860-1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of Robert Elder
Primary Description: 
Light green non-lead glass; mold-blown. Violin-shaped flask with cylindrical neck, sheared rim, scroll design on body (both sides identical); flat oval base ground and polished with polished pontil mark in center.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
GIX-30
Provenance: 
Elder, Robert, Source
1987
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
light green
Technique: 
mold-blown

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 109, #20; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382