Decanter

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Object Name: 
Decanter
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NH, Keene
Accession Number: 
50.4.152
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.75 cm; Body Diam (max): 9.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1816-1835
Primary Description: 
Decanter. Bottle glass, dark olive-green; barrel shape, long tapering neck with upward flaring sheared lip; geometric pattern (GIII-16): band of vertical ribbing, one of alternate bulls-eye sunburst (sunburst motif 5) and blocks of diamond diapering, narrow one of diagonal ribbing to right, one of fine vertical ribs, single horizontal rib between bands; base (rayed type VIIA) with band of ribs or rays around large center; rough pontil mark.

More Info

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

Exhibitions (1)

The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15