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GIV-33

Object NameMasonic/Eagle Flask

Maker Zanesville Glass Works

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1832

TechniqueMold-blown

SizeOverall H: 16.8 cm, W: 10.6 cm, D: Diam (max):

Accession Number60.4.325

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

American Historical Flasks

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionGreen glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark. Obverse: Masonic arch, pillars and pavement, twenty-two bricks widely spaced. Within arch, "Farmer's Arms", sheaf of rye, pitchfork, shovel, rake, sickle, axe and scythe. Sheaf of rye, points to right instead of left; beneath pavement elaborate scroll ornament. Reverse: American Eagle, head turned to right; shield with seven vertical bars on breast; wings partly raised, right foreshortened. Thunderbolt (five arrows) in its right talons, olive branch in left. Eagle stands on oval frame with inner band of twenty-six small pearls and containing word "OHIO". Sun rays surround eagle's head and above rays in semi-circle "ZANESVILLE"; in semi-circle beneath oval frame "MURDOCK & CASSEL". Edges: vertically ribbed.
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