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

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-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.