Search "Figured Flask" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art website (www.metmuseum.org) and you get 17 sweet historical flasks.
Does anyone have a picture of the actual Met Fifth Avenue Gallery 706 display that shows these flasks?
HI, My mom found a bottle that was in my dad's eclectic collection of antiques. The note on the bottle said "nice, have appraised". I looked it up and it seems like they go for some good $. This one has a chip and hairline crack in the top. I'll include photos of it. Any other info is always...
Mottled green color, it has a cork (?) intact in lip, dregs inside bottom, painting on outside of one side, neck of bottle is crooked not straight, neck glass shows imperfections, 13" tall. SHA Archaeologist said it might be a chestnut flask, but shape is unusual enough so he wasn't 100% sure...