Decanter

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Object Name: 
Decanter
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
possibly United States, OH, Kent
Accession Number: 
50.4.134
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.3 cm, Diam (max): 14.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1823 - 1830
Primary Description: 
Decanter. Bottle glass, bubbly, light yellowish olive-green; blown-molded for pattern; large squat ovoid body, long plain tapering neck with round-collared small mouth; geometric pattern (GII-6): band of vertical ribs between bands of diamond diapering, gadroon ribbing at top, wide single horizontal rib between bands, plain base; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1928
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
olive green
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09

Publications (1)

The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, pp. 220-221 (fig. 8);