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Object NameFlask
Maker John Frederick Amelung
Made FromGlass
Date1792
Place MadeUnited States, MD, Frederick
TechniqueBlown, engraved
SizeOverall H: 17.1 cm; Body W: 10.2 cm, D: 7 cm
Accession Number55.4.277
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
On ViewAmerican Gallery
Interpretive Notes
Francis Stenger was a member of a glassmaking family in southern New Jersey.
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.
Provenance
Source McKearin Antiques - 1955-11-12

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