Flask
Object/Artifact
Aquamarine flask, broken pontil. McKearin (GI-26), Quart, Plain lip. Obverse: George Washington, Classical profile with queue, facing left. Reverse: Large American Eagle, head turned to the right. Shielf with 8 vertical and 2 horizontal bars on the breast; wings partly raised and right foreshortened. Thunderbolt (3 arrows) in its right taons. Olive branch in left. Seven 5 pointed stars above eagle and 5 below. Edges: Heavy veritcal medial rib with narrow rib on each side and 2 narrow rivs forming outer edge of each panel.
2022.41.057
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Bridgeton Glass Works
1830 - 1850
Bridgeton
New Jersey
United States of America
North America
8-1/2 in
5-1/4 in
1 in
Glass
Washington, George, 1732-1799
"American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin and Kenneth M. Wilson. pg. 529 (GI-26)