Decanter with Stopper

Object Name: 
Decanter with Stopper

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Object Name: 
Decanter with Stopper
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
50.2.32
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 27 cm, Diam (max): 12 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800
Primary Description: 
Dark colorless lead glass; dip-molded and blown. (a) Squatty straight-sided body with long shoulder tapering into neck with wide flange and three heavy double-rings with milled edge; dip-molded band of short vertical ribs at bottom below crudely-engraved circlet of alternate diamond and latticed vesica with splits above and below; on bottom, outer rayed band, narrow band with mark "CORK GLASS CO.", plain center with rough pontil. (b) Large bull's-eye stopper.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
CORK GLASS CO.
Mark
: 
Outer rayed band on bottom

Publications (2)

Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance (1981) illustrated, p. 79, pl. 20; BIB# 21932
Irish Glass: The Age of Exuberance (1970) illustrated, pl. 6A; BIB# 27243