Flask

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Flask

Datec. 1850–1860s

Possible placeOhio, United States

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (Rockingham ware)

Dimensions7 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (18.1 × 11.4 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.57.26

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Department

Bayou Bend

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CERAMICS

Description

The distinctive ornament on this earthenware flask, with an eagle on one side and a morning glory on the other, together with the fluting at the neck, has been borrowed exactly from glass flasks thought to have been produced in the Midwest. It would seem likely that the present flask also originated there.

Related examples: Ramsay 1939, pl. 63; McKearin and Wilson 1978, p. 562, GII-19 (identical in design to glass flask).

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.

Provenance[George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; [George Abraham and Gilbert May Antiques, West Granville, Massachusetts]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH.
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