Decanter
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, American, active 1825 - 1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts
about 1830
Colorless lead glass, mold blown
Overall: 10 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (26 × 11.8 cm)
Rim: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
Base: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.40
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Classification
Decorative Arts
On view
Exhibition History
Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centry Furniture and Glass (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), no. 346 (within a group of four decanters)
George and Helen McKearin, American Glass (New York: Crown Publishers, 1941), plate 103, #9.
American Folk Art at the Hood Museum of Art (a thematic partial permanent gallery installation); Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-present.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-August 16, 2020.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Girls Scouts of the United States of America, Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centry Furniture and Glass... for the Benefit of The National Coucil of Girls Scouts, Inc. (New York: Americaqn Art Galleries, 1929, no. 346 (within a group of four decanters)
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 207, no. 182.
Provenance
George McKearin collection; The New Bedford Museum of Glass, New Bedford, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2006.
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