Experimental Decanter

Object Name: 
Experimental Decanter

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Object Name: 
Experimental Decanter
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
2002.4.236
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24.9 cm, Diam: 7.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of Sara S. Russell in memory of Isabel Leighton Stedman
Primary Description: 
Translucent light blue glass; blown, tooled. Cylindrical bottle tapering to smaller cylindrical neck, rounded rim, polished pontil mark. Paper glued to base with "J.H.L.Jr./ First /May 24/70"

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Leighton, John H., Former Collection
Hall, Isabel Leighton, Former Collection
Leighton, John H., Jr., Former Collection
Russell, Theodore E., Source
2002-08-14
Russell, Sara Stedman (Mrs. Theodore E.), Source
2002-08-14
Stedman, Barbara Hall, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
Translucent light blue
Technique: 
blown, tooled

Publications (1)

Cambridge Glass, 1818 to 1888 (1930) illustrated, pl. 22; BIB# 25687