"Decanter and stopper"

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Object Name: 
Decanter with Stopper
Title: 
"Decanter and stopper"
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
97.4.105
Dimensions: 
(a,b) H: 28.2 cm; (a) H: 21.3 cm, D: 10.4 cm; (b) H; 15.0 cm D: 4.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1950-1959
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, tooled, ground, polished. (a) Conical shape with slightly elongated neck; inside of neck ground to fit the stopper; ground and polished under base. (b) Conical stopper with a deep indentation on top, its rim fluted and its shank ground and polished to fit the opening of the decanter.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
1997
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled, ground, polished
tooling
ground glass