Keene-Marlboro Street Glass Works
Decanter

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Decanter
Datec. 1820–1840
Probable placeKeene, New Hampshire, United States
MediumNonlead glass
Dimensions9 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. diameter (24.1 × 10.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.455
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

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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