Flask

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Object Name: 
Flask
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
84.4.312
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.3 cm, W: 10.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1815-1835
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. and Alice Wendt Voorhees
Primary Description: 
Grayish nearly colorless non-lead glass; mold-blown. Flattened globular shape, patterned in a deep mold with vertical ribbing which has then been swirled to the right, second set of 16 vertical ribs superimposed on first to create broken swirl effect; rough pontil mark on base.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Voorhees Collection, Charles H. and Alice Wendt, Former Collection
Webster, Elizabeth Voorhees, Source
Color: 
Grayish nearly colorless
Technique: 
mold-blown