Decanter and Stopper

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1876

DimensionsH (with stopper): 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.); H (without stopper): 20.5 cm (8 1/16 in.); Rim Diam: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.); Base Diam: 11.0 cm (4 11/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.4

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown and finished by tooling. Shoulder and neck cut with seven flutes. Knop between cut with seven facets. Top and edge of lip cut and polished. Base cut with a twenty-four-pointed star. The engraved inscription on the reverse frames a tall pine tree and on the obverse is enclosed on the sides and below by a copper-wheel-engraved wreath composed of a branch of oak leaves with acorns on the right, joined by a bowknot to a branch of laurel leaves with berries on the left. Stopper: pressed, then the ball top facet-cut; upper part of shank cut with eight flats, and lower part of shank ground and polished to fit the neck.

Published ReferencesDorothy Daniel, "New England Glass in Toledo," Antiques, vol. 61, April 1952, repr. p. 331, bottom right (Reprint 2, p. 63).

Millard F. Rogers, Jr., "The New England Glass Company: Some Discoveries," Antiques, vol. 85, July 1964, p. 80, fig. 10 (Reprint 2, pp. 67-68).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 107.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 432.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195, no. 70; p. 224, no. 3.

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. 535, no. 878.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 66, no. 63.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 70.

Glass from World's Fairs, 1851-1904, special exhibition, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1986.