Decanter and Stopper

Object Name: 
Decanter and Stopper

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Object Name: 
Decanter and Stopper
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, OH, Kent
Accession Number: 
50.4.172
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.5 cm; Body H: 20.5 cm, Diam (max): 9.25 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1823-1830
Primary Description: 
Decanter and Stopper. Bottle glass, yellowish olive-green; blown-molded; club-shaped body, long plain neck with narrow flanged lip; 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. Waffled-disc stopper, clear green.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1927
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
olive green
yellow
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 (4)

Mold-Blown Glass: Roman and American (2015) illustrated, p. 9 (fig. 4); BIB# AI100138
Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 11, p. 185, 2nd from right; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 157, fig. 11; BIB# 71763
American Glass (1948) (1948) #1, pl. 82; BIB# 25297