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Decanter or Bottle

Manufacturer Mount Vernon Glass Works (American, 1810-1844)

Date1820-1844

DimensionsH: 20.9 cm (8 7/32 in.); Rim Diam: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.); Base Diam: 9.3 cm (3 21/32 in.)

MediumDark olive-green bottle glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.57

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-2, Type 1) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Slightly concave base. Slightly rough open-ring pontil mark. Interior of neck not ground; it may not have been intended for a stopper. Capacity: 1 quart.

Published ReferencesHarry Hall White, "New York State Glasshouses," pt. 2, Antiques, vol. 46, September 1929, pp. 193-196, fig. 6 (Reprint 1, pp. 126-129)

McKearin, 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.III-2, pp. 253, 295, pl. 83, no. 1

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 25, fig. 37, p. 92

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. 219, no. 238, colorpl. 238, p. 157.

Exhibition HistorySpillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, intro. by Nina A. Asharina, Shedevri Amerikanskogo Stekla [Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art], exh. cat., Moscow, Soviet Press, 1990, repr. p. 56, fig. 36.