Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

ManufacturerProbably Brooklyn Flint Glass Works (American, 1823-1868)

Place of Originprobably Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date1829-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm)
without stopper: 8 1/16 × 2 3/16 × 3 11/16 in. (20.4 × 5.5 × 9.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.186A-B

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass with a greenish yellow cast. Decanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-2, Type 2) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Lip appears to be folded outward and under. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: one quart. Hollow stopper: blown in a mold of three vertical sections and a base plate bearing a rayed pattern (uncharted by McKearin) and cracked off at lower end.

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.III-2, p. 253, pl. 91, Type 2; pp. 295, 266, 271; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 11.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 803, pl. III, left; pp. 812-813.

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. 219, no. 240.