Sunburst Flask

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Object Name: 
Sunburst Flask
Accession Number: 
60.4.384
Dimensions: 
H: 18 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830
Primary Description: 
Clear green glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark, probably lead glass. Obverse: elongated sunburst with twelve rays in small sunken oval panel; band of tiny ornaments around inner edge of panel; entire flask except panel covered with heavy narrow wide-spaced vertical ribbing, eighteen ribs. Reverse: same as obverse. Edges: vertical ribbing same as covering flask.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
GVIII-29
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
Color: 
green
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass