flask

Object NameFlask

Pattern Number

GII-1

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1820-1839

TechniqueMold-blown

SizeH: 18 cm

Accession Number60.4.133

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: American History in Glass

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionYellow green glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark. Obverse: American Eagle, head turned to right; wings partly raised and right foreshortened; large shield with six bars on breast, tail feathers show below shield at right; thunderbolt (three arrows) in its right talons. Eagle stands on oval frame with inner band of tiny pearl beads, twenty-eight in number. Above eagle ten small five-pointed stars in semi-circular formation and one faint star just beneath making eleven in all. At right of eagle's left wing is tiny circular dot. Just below oval frame short diagonal ribbing to left and right. Reverse: similar to obverse except stars appear slightly larger. Inscription: none. Edges: horizontally beaded with narrow vertical medial rib.
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