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Pitcher

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

Place of OriginKeene, New Hampshire, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions5 5/16 × 4 1/4 × 3 1/16 in. (13.5 × 10.8 × 7.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.199

Not on View

DescriptionOlive-amber bottle glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-16) for a decanter of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VII.A). Neck, rim, and spout sheared and tooled to shape. Applied solid handle with crimped lower end. Rough pontil mark in concave center of base. Capacity: one pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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., GIII-16, p. 320; pl. 119, top right; p. 277.

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. 224, no. 253.