Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

Place of Originprobably Ireland; possibly England

Date1790-1820

Dimensionswith stopper: 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
without stopper: 7 1/16 × 1 7/16 × 2 13/16 in. (17.9 × 3.6 × 7.1 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.179A-B

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown and patterned in a full-size dip mold with fifty-five vertical indentations (fingerings or ribs) near the base, a circle of short indentations around the outer edge of the slightly concave base, and a slightly raised circle 3.0 cm (1 3/16 in.) in diameter in the center. Rough, open pontil mark. Flat, circular bull's-eye stopper: pressed, shank rough ground to fit the rough-ground neck of the decanter; appears to be original to the decanter.

Published ReferencesThorpe, W. A., English & Irish Glass, London and Norwich, London and Norwich Press, 1927, fig. 43b.

Westropp, Michael Seymour Dudley, Irish Glass: An Account of Glass-Making in Ireland from the XVIth Century to the Present Day, rev. ed. Mary Boydell, Dublin, Allan Figgis, 1978, p. 86, pl. 17, no. 8.

Phelps, Warren, Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance, 2d ed., ed. R. J. Charleston, London, Faber and Faber, 1981, pp. 67-70, pls. 2B, 3A.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 800, no. 1360.