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Decanter

Place of OriginNew England, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions8 1/16 × 1 15/16 × 3 9/16 in. (20.5 × 4.9 × 9.1 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.189

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-15) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VII.A). Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough pontil mark. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 205, pl. 51 (second from right).

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.III-15, p. 255, pl. 93; p. 296.

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. 221, no. 244.