Decanter
Decanter
Place of Originprobably New England
Date1820-1840
Dimensions6 5/8 × 1 13/16 × 2 13/16 in. (16.8 × 4.6 × 7.2 cm)
Mediumcolorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.184
Not on View
DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type XII). Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Three applied pulley rings with rigaree decoration around neck. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark.
Capacity: one pint.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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. 261, pl. 100, no. 16; p. 294.
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. 217, no. 234.
1820-1840
Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works
1815-1817 (if Keene) or 1817-1825 (if elsewhere)
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