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flask

Object NameFlask

Maker John Frederick Amelung

Made FromGlass

Date1792

TechniqueBlown, engraved

SizeOverall H: 17.1 cm; Body W: 10.2 cm, D: 7 cm

Accession Number55.4.277

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.

Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Francis Stenger was a member of a glassmaking family in southern New Jersey.

Place Made

United States, MD, Frederick

Physical DescriptionFlask. Clear glass with smoky-greenish tinge and minute bubbles; wear marks; free blown and engraved; flattened oval body with rough pontil mark at base and short cylindrical neck slightly flaring at thickened rim; on body a medallion formed by two leaf-and flower sprays and enclosing the name: "F. Stenger: 1792", on the reverse a circular medallion formed by two slender leaf sprays joined at top and bottom by a four petaled flower and enclosing a bottle, a plow, and Masonic trowel and square.
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