Footed Decanter and Stopper

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Footed Decanter and Stopper

Place of Originprobably Eastern United States

Date1830-1845

Dimensionswith stopper: 10 13/16 in. (27.4 cm)
without stopper: 8 7/16 × 2 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (21.5 × 5.7 × 8.9 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.185

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.V-16) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. The edge of the flange folded upward and over. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive stopper. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: one quart. Hollow stopper: blown in a mold (McKearin no. 13) of two vertical sections and a base plate and cracked off at lower end. Shank rough-ground.

Published ReferencesReferences 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.V-16, p. 260, pl. 99; p. 298; p. 273, pl. 114, no. 13.

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. 223, no. 250.