Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH (with stopper): 10 13/32 in. (26.4 cm); H (without stopper): 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/32 in. (5.5 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.67A-B

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type XII). Neck and flange lip sheared and tooled to shape. Three applied pulley rings with rigaree decoration around neck. Interior of neck rough-ground to receive a stopper. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: 1 quart. Hollow stopper: blown in a three-piece mold and cracked off at lower end (McKearin no. 3). Ground to fit neck of decanter.

Published ReferencesKeyes, Homer Eaton, "Glass: Ancient and Antique," Antiques, vol. 32, August 1937, p. 70, fig. 2d (Reprint 1, p. 71).

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 44.

References to glass classifications established in 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.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 16; p. 294; p. 273, pl. 114, no. 4.

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. 217, no. 233.