Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm)
without stopper: 8 1/8 × 2 3/16 × 3 1/2 in. (20.6 × 5.6 × 8.9 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.190A-B

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-5) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VI.A). Upper portion of 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 a stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Hollow stopper: blown in a three-piece mold (McKearin no. 6) and cracked off at lower end. Capacity: one quart.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 51, left.

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-5, p. 254, pl. 92; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 30; p. 273, pl. 114, no. 6; pl. 83, no. 5; p. 295.

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. 220, no. 242.