| Accession # |
40.253 |
|
Culture |
American
|
| Title |
Flask (New York World's Fair) |
| Date |
1939 |
| Medium |
Glass |
| Dimensions |
8 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (22.5 x 13 x 13 cm) |
| Marks |
On bottom, molded: "P-34 / 2 [faint, illegible pictograph] [upside down '1']" |
| Inscriptions |
On banner encircling globe-shaped body of flask, molded words and pictures: "[star shape] WOLRDS [star] FAIR [star] 1939 [2 stars] [4 pictographs or symbols, some indecipherable: arrow, pictograph resembling backwards musical note, 2 parallel serpentine lines, 'H' shape] [2 stars] 1939" |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Mrs. William Greig Walker by subscription |
| Location |
Visible Storage: Case 3, Shelf C (Special Exhibition)
|
| Description |
White milk glass flask with body in shape of a globe and a long neck. Globe molded with oceans, continents, and major mountain ranges; molded crinkled ribbon divides globe into four quarters and continues into neck; banner encircling globe on diagonal reads: "WORLDS FAIR 1939". Neck is cylindrical form, tapering toward top; sides of neck decorated with three triangles bent down center and, in between, crinkled ribbon; mouth threaded for a now lost screw-on cap. |
