Collection Highlights
View of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
after 1883
1904.22
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Decanter with stopper
Object name
Decanter with stopper
Date
1825-1844
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 11 x 5 in. ( 27.9 x 12.7 cm )
Description
Colorless blown and cut lead glass decanter; bulbous form with sloping shoulders cut with wide flutes at base and shoulders with band of alternating circular printies with blaze and strawberry diamonds with fan, tapered neck with three applied rings and flanged lip, and flat base with polished pontil mark; cut stopper with faceted ball on tapered stem with ground plug (possibly not original).
Credit Line
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number
1948.287ab
Gallery Label
The cut decoration on this decanter is similar to decoration on a sugar bowl and lamp in the Toledo Museum, and a mug in the Corning Museum that are attributed to the Union Flint Glass Works (see publications).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
