Product Description
This limited edition commemorative blue glass flask is made in the USA exclusively for Colonial Williamsburg retail stores by master glass artist, Phil Gilson. This Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 100th anniversary souvenir makes a great gift and addition to your Colonial Williamsburg collectibles. Grab yours before they sell out!
Founded in 1926, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation maintains the world’s largest American history museum, where visitors can engage in immersive, authentic 18th-century experiences. The historic campus includes 89 original buildings and more than 500 meticulous re-creations of lost structures as well as two world-class art museums. The Foundation conducts ongoing historical, architectural, and archaeological research that underpins all exhibitions and programs in the Historic Area, in the Art Museums, and online.
Features
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 100th anniversary souvenir
- Limited edition flask by Phil Gilson
- Bottle blue color
- Food safe glass
- Front side reads "CW Foundation, Est. 1926"
- Reverse side has the CW script insignia
- Measures approximately 7"H x 5"W x 2"D (this is a handmade item - exact dimensions may vary)
- Made in USA
- A Colonial Williamsburg retail shops exclusive! Sold online and at the Prentis Store in the Historic Area
About the Artist
Phil Gilson might be the last colonial American-style glassblower working full-time in the traditions developed in the 18th Century. A cousin of the Wistars, owners of America's first successful glass operation, Gilson's craft has been a passion and a family legacy since the 1730s.
Gilson focuses most of his work on producing and perpetuating designs for historic homes, museums, schools, and the living history and re-enacting community. He makes many pieces using original molds and hand tools handed down for generations. Gilson is the last of two known master chippers in the country. Chipping is the trade of carving directly into cast-iron glass molds to re-create embossed bottles and flasks of the past. The custom carvings enable Gilson to produce modern commemorative interpretations by placing interchangeable inserts in antique molds. His work also includes custom free-blown, pressed glass, and dip-molded pieces. All of his work is well-documented and made in historical bottle-glass colors.
Early American Life magazine's esteemed directory of Traditional American Crafts includes Phil Gilson as a member.
