Decanter

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Decanter

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions5 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 2 1/2 in. (13.8 × 3.6 × 6.3 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.193

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-2, Type 1) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

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 1; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 11; 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. 219, no. 239.