Decanter

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Object Name: 
Decanter
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Vernon
Accession Number: 
50.4.132
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.2 cm; Base Diam: 9.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-1835
Primary Description: 
Decanter. Bottle glass, olive-green; blown-molded; semibarrel-shaped body, sloping shoulder, short cylindrical neck with flat flange, plain base with rough pontil mark; geometric pattern GIII-2 Type I: band of sunburst-in-square (motif 10) between narrow bands of broad vertical ribs below, and broad swirled ribs above to base of vertically ribbed neck.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07
Color: 
olive green
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, pp. 220-221 (fig. 11);