Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

Place of Originprobably New England

Date1820-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm)
without stopper: 8 3/16 × 2 5/16 × 3 1/2 in. (20.8 × 5.9 × 8.9 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.192

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-22) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VI.A). Upper part 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 stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: one quart. Hollow stopper: blown in a mold (uncharted by McKearin) of three vertical sections and a base plate bearing a rayed pattern and cracked off at lower end. Shank slightly 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.II-22, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 30; p. 294; p. 249, pl. 86 (stopper).

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. 218, no. 236.