Decanter with Stopper

Object Name: 
Decanter with Stopper

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Object Name: 
Decanter with Stopper
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
50.2.29 A
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 26.25 cm, Diam (max): 11.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800
Primary Description: 
Colorless, slightly dark lead glass; dip-molded and blown, cut and applied decorations. (a) Semi-barrel shape, short tapering neck with wide flange; base, narrow rayed circle, concentric rings and polished pontil mark; decoration: band of dip-molded wide vertical ribs below cut circlet of alternate vesica with star and large low strawberry-diamond, with trio of ovals above and below; on shoulder, narrow lunar-slice-bordered band of flat strawberry diamonds; on neck, three double rigaree-collars. (b) Pressed wheel or sunburst stopper.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
Colorless, Slightly dark
colorless
Technique: 
Dip-molded, Blown, Cut, Applied
cut glass

Exhibitions (3)

The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning, 1868-1940
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1977-04 through 1977-10
Toledo Museum of Art 1977-11 through 1978-02
Bottles of the World (Sekai no hei)
Venue(s)
Suntory Museum of Art 1977-03 through 1977-05
 
Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1946-09 through 1946-10

Publications (6)

Das Geschliffene Glas der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit (1986-10) illustrated, pp. 742-749, pl. 3;
Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance (1981) illustrated, p. 139, pl. 114; BIB# 21932
The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning 1868-1940 (1977) illustrated, pp. 12-13, 88, fig. 1, cat. #1; BIB# 28368
Irish Glass: The Age of Exuberance (1970) illustrated, pl. 51B; BIB# 27243
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) illustrated, pl. 296; BIB# 19945
English, Scottish, and Irish Table Glass: from the sixteenth century to 1820 (1956) pl. 296; BIB# 25354

Objects in Set (2)

2 Decanters
Artist:Perrin, Geddes & Co.
Date:about 1800
Accession Number:50.2.29
Decanter with Stopper
Artist:Perrin, Geddes & Co.
Date:about 1800
Accession Number:50.2.29 B