Collection Highlights
Salver
1772-1773
1928.24
Silver
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Figured flask
Object name
Figured flask
Date
1835-1855
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 5 3/4 x 3 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 14.6 x 9.2 x 5.7 cm )
Description
Olive green lead glass figured flask blown in a two-part mold (McKearin GI-114) with hand-tooled flared lip, oval body with classical busts on either side (possibly Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron), and pontil mark on base.
Credit Line
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number
1953.387
Gallery Label
According to McKearin and Wilson, the two busts depicted on this flask are traditionally identified as Scott and Byron, but the basis for this attribution is unknown ("American Bottles & Flasks and Their Ancestry," p. 552).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
