Amberina Decanter

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Object Name: 
Amberina Decanter
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
50.4.336
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.5 cm; Base Diam: 8.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1883-1888
Primary Description: 
Decanter. Lead glass, amberina - pale amber shading to deep red; pattern-molded and free-blown; taper shape with very slender neck and narrow flange, flat base with ground and polished pontil mark, pattern of ribbing swirled to right.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Woodside, Charles, Former Collection
Woodside, Lura, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Art Glass
Color: 
amber
deep red
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Amberina glass
glassblowing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (5)

The Decanter: Ancient to Modern (2018) illustrated, p. 257 (fig. 3);
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, #4, pl. 99; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, #4, pl. 99; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) illustrated, #4, pl. 99; BIB# 76944
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #6, pl. 217; BIB# 25297