Sunburst Flask

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Object Name: 
Sunburst Flask
Place Made: 
United States, New England
Accession Number: 
60.4.363
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.3 cm, W: 10.1 cm, D: Diam (max):
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-about 1820
Primary Description: 
Olive amber glass; mold-blown; plain lip, pontil mark. Obverse: large elliptical sunburst, twenty-four rounded rays rounding downward to surface of flask and forming scalloped ellipse; at centre two dotted concentric rings enclosing medium size dot. Reverse: same as obverse. Edges: horizontally corrugated; corrugations extend around flask at the base and around upper part between neck and shoulders; shoulders not so sharply angled and squared.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Pattern Name: 
GVIII-5a
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
Color: 
olive
amber
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass