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Decanter or Bottle

Manufacturer Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works (American, 1814-1841)

Place of OriginKeene, New Hampshire, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions7 5/16 × 1 3/16 × 3 in. (18.6 × 3 × 7.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.197

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DescriptionOlive-green bottle glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-16) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VII.A). Neck and lip tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark in concave center of base. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesHelen McKearin, "Dispelling the Stoddard Myth," Antiques, vol. 32, August 1937, pp. 68-69, fig. 2 (Reprint 1, pp. 166-167).

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-16, p. 255, pl. 93; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 32; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 5; p. 296; pl. 103, no. 4.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 292, pl. 86, no. 2 (with flared lip).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 166, fig. 125, left.

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. 245.