GX-22

Object NameFlask

Made FromGlass

Date1840

Techniquemold-blown

SizeH: 16.8 cm

Accession Number60.4.464

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

American Historical Flasks

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionAquamarine glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark. Obverse: designs on large oval panels; log cabin with door at right and single window with four panes adjoining door at left; chimney on left end of gable roof. Above cabin in partial semi-circle, nine small five-pointed stars; beneath cabin in semi-circle rail fence with gate at center. Reverse: American Flag at left on tall standard blowing in breeze to right; in the flag bars show plainly and there are tiny dots representing stars. Surmounting flag in partial semi-circle nine small five-pointed stars and a similar tenth star falls in the field of the flag; beneath flag in semi-circle "HARD CIDER" and large cider barrel beneath. Below barrel at left a large plow; stalks of grain rise from base of flask at right to a point level with center of barrel; at left there are two stalks of grain beneath the handles of the plow. Edges: horizontally beaded with vertical medial rib.
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