Decanter and Stopper

Manufacturer Phoenix Glass Works American, 1819 or 1820-1870

Manufacturer South Boston Flint Glass Works American, 1813-1827

Date1813-1830

DimensionsH (with stopper): 22.8 cm (8 31/32 in.); H (without stopper): 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.);
Rim Diam: 5.0 cm (1 31/32 in.); Base Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.122

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, p. 159, pl. 55, nos. 1, 3.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 77.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 214, fig. 163, pp. 220-221, figs. 174.

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 75.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 192.

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. 184, no. 153.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 55, no. 1.