- Decanter
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The earliest of the six bottle glass houses operating in New Hampshire between 1815 and 1880 was established at Keene in 1815. These decanters were made with a patterned, three-part mold, with which, in an inexpensive and quick way, it was possible to produce a bottle whose surface resembled expensive hand-cut glass. Decanters were produced in large quantities at Keene; these examples are made in a distinctive pattern attributed to that glass house.
Related examples: Toledo (Wilson 1994, p. 221, no. 245).
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceNo information available; however, probably acquired by Miss Ima Hogg at American Art Galleries, New York, The Jacob Paxson Temple Collection: Two Hundred Years of Glasswork in America, November 17, 1923, as some of the surrounding records were.
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