Unknown American
Pair of Decanters

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Maker Unknown American

CultureAmerican

Titles

Pair of Decanters

Datec. 1830–1840

Made inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumLead glass

DimensionsEach: 10 × 4 3/8 in. diameter (25.4 × 11.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Alice C. Simkins in memory of Alice Nicholson Hanszen

Object numberB.98.4.1,.2

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Kilroy Center

On view

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionEach of these decanters features a wheel-engraved eagle adapted from the Great Seal of the United States, and each has a label—one “Gin” and one “Brandy”—emblazoned on the shield suspended from the eagle’s beak.
Provenance[The Stradlings, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

1: Engraved on body: seven stars above spread winged American eagle with olive branch in right talon and arrows in the left and holding in its beak a shield with the legend: BRANDY
2: Engraved on body: seven stars above spread winged American eagle with olive branch in right talon and arrows in the left and holding in its beak a shield with the legend: GIN

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