Decanter and Stopper

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

Date1815-1817

DimensionsH (with stopper): 23.1 cm (9 3/32 in.); H (without stopper): 20.4 cm (8 1/32 in.); Rim Diam: 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.); Base L: 8.5 cm (3 11/32 in.); Base W: 8.3 cm (3 9/32 in.)

MediumDark blue-green lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.58

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

Collections

Glass

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., G.II-28, p. 252, pl. 89; p. 287; pl. 102, no. 3; pp. 204, 264-265.

Wittmann, Otto, "New Accessions," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer 1960, repr. p. 66.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 159-168, fig. 127.

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. 215, no. 230, colorpl. 230. p. 157.