Flask Depicting the Marquis de Lafayette Maker: Coventry Glass Works (American, 1813–1850)
Proprietor: Stebbins and Chamberlin, in partnership 1825 - 1830
Proprietor: Stebbins and Stebbins, American, in partnership 1824–25

Medium

Mold-blown soda-lime glass

Dimensions

6 1/8 × 3 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (15.56 × 8.57 × 6.03 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Glen Wright

Accession Number

1941.132

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 86–87, no. 44, fig. 44A
  • Florence Mellows Montgomery, "Ceramics, Glass, and Textiles at Yale," Antiques 117, no. 6 (June 1980), 1330, fig. 5
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Additional information

Object/Work type

flasks (bottles)

Inscriptions

"LA FAYETTE / COVENTRY / C-T" worked into the mold of the obverse; "S&S" worked into the mold on the reverse

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