flask
Object NameFlacon with Stopper
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1830-1850
Place MadeBohemia
Size(a&b) H: 21.5 cm; (a) H: 13.1 cm; D (rim): 5.6 cm, (max.)(body): 12 cm
Accession Number54.3.43 A
Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Bottles of the World (Sekai no hei)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionClear and transparent green heavy glass; wear marks at base; free-blown, cased and cut. (a) Hexagonal thick foot with curved rim, hexagonal semispherical body ending in a remarkable flange (5/8" thick), hexagonal neck flaring towards flange and hexagonal rim; (b) conical stopper with high hexagonal finial enclosing a "tear" and consisting of a lower part flaring to a wide flange and an obelisk-shaped top; cut multipointed star at base, body and finial hexagonally cut, flanges of body and finial deeply scalloped, light green overlay cut off except for the panel-edges and the top and bottom parts of both flanges.Provenance
Source
Ellen D. Sharpe
- 1954-06-01
