Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

Place of Originprobably New England, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
without stopper: 6 15/16 × 1 7/8 × 2 13/16 in. (17.7 × 4.8 × 7.2 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.183A-B

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Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesHomer Eaton Keyes, "Glass: Ancient and Antique," Antiques, vol. 32, August 1937, pp. 70-72, fig. 2d.

References to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 294; p. 273, pl. 114, no. 3.

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. 218, no. 235.