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Decanter

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

Place of OriginSandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1830-1840

Dimensionswith stopper: 9 × 1 5/8 × 3 1/16 in. (22.9 × 4.1 × 7.7 cm)
without stopper: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.247

Not on View

DescriptionSapphire-blue lead glass; blown in a full-size mold. Decanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.V-8) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lips sheared and tooled to shape. Base with irregular bumps around edge and elsewhere. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: one pint. Stopper: blown and patterned in a one-piece part-size mold with 16 ribs and cracked off at bottom end. The shank has an open end and is rough-ground.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, Helen A., "Three Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 6, August 1924, pp. 78-81, fig. 5.

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.V-8; p. 259, pl. 98; p. 297; pl. 116, no. 2 (quart decanter in this pattern).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 271, fig. 229.

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 27, fig. 40, p. 92.

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. 222, no. 248, colorpl. 248, p. 158.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 144-145, repr. (col.) fig. 60B, p. 145.

Exhibition HistorySpillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, intro. by Nina A. Asharina, Shedevri Amerikanskogo Stekla [Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art], exh. cat., Moscow, Soviet Press, 1990, repr. p. 57, fig. 38.