Flask (New York World's Fair)

• Artist: American (Culture)
• Medium: Glass
• Geographical Location: USA
• Dates: 1939
• Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (22.5 x 13 x 13 cm)
• Markings: 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"
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 5Q12-LUCE, Unit 21, Shelf E
• Accession Number: 40.253
• Image: 40.253_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,

Catalogue 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.