Decanter and Stopper

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

Date1815-1817 (if Keene) or 1817-1825 (if elsewhere)

DimensionsH with stopper 21.7 cm (8 17/32 in.); H without stopper 17.1 cm (6 23/32 in.); D rim 5.2 cm (2 1/32 in.); D base 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)

MediumDeep purple-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.59

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-7) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and lip sheared and tooled to shape. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive stopper. Small, rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: 1 pint. Wheel stopper (McKearin no. 21): pressed.

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-7, p. 250, pl. 87; p. 286; p. 264, repr. pl. 102, no. 8; p. 273, pl. 114, no. 21

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. 216, no. 231, colorpl. 231, p. 157.