Carafe

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Object Name: 
Carafe
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Vernon
Accession Number: 
55.4.223
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.7 cm; Rim Diam: 8.7 cm; Shoulder Diam: 11.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-1835
Primary Description: 
Carafe. Transparent emerald-green very heavy glass with small bubbles; wear marks; blown-three-mold; barrel-shaped body with rough pontil mark at base, wide cylindrical neck with heavy molded rib or collar at bottom, wide flanged rim; patterned in G I-29 pattern (in pronounced relief).

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
emerald
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 87, #1, pp. 294-295; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 87, #1, pp. 294-295; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 87, #1, pp. 294-295; BIB# 96725