GII-55

Object NameEagle/Grapes Flask

Made FromGlass

Date1836-1842

TechniqueMold-blown

SizeH: 20 cm

Accession Number60.4.185

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

American Historical Flasks

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionAquamarine glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark. Obverse: designs on oval panels; American Eagle, head turned to left; wings partly raised; shield with vertical and horizontal bars on breast. Thunderbolt (three arrows) in right talons, olive branch in left. Above eagle thirteen five-pointed stars. Reverse: large bunch of grapes and smaller bunch at right depending from stem with two large leaves. Edges: fine vertical ribbing.
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