New England Glass Company
Decanter

Public Domain

MakerAttributed to New England Glass Company (East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818–1888)East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818–1888

CultureAmerican

Titles

Decanter
the "Honeycomb" pattern

Datec. 1860–1880

Possible placeCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

MediumNonlead glass

Dimensions12 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (32.4 × 11.4 × 11.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Richard Fluhr in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Jack R. McGregor Endowment

Object numberB.2013.10

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Docent Foyer (Sam Houston Hall)

On view

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionThis decanter in the honeycomb pattern was sold in sets along with wine and cordial glasses, tumblers, goblets, pitchers, eggcups, jelly glasses, and ocher forms. Although over 1,500 pressed-glass patterns are known today, fewer than half can be attributed to any particular factory. The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, attributes a similar example in their collection to the New England Glass Company.
Provenance[Estate sale, Connecticut]; purchased by Richard Fluhr, early 1990s; given to MFAH, 2013.

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