Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Figured flask
Object Number:
1953.381
Date:
1825-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 x 2 1/2 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Green non-lead glass figured flask blown in a full-sized, two-part mold (McKearin GIII-4); flask has hand-tooled, flared clylindrical neck, rounded shoulders, ovoid body embossed with a cornucopia of fruit on the obverse with a two-handled gadrooned urn of fruit on the reverse, and an oval base with a pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
