Decanter

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Famous for its production of pressed glass, the versatile Boston and Sandwich Glass Company also manufactured blown, mold-blown, cut, and enameled glass.

To make this decanter’s rare “double-patterned” design, the gather of hot glass was given an initial impression of vertical ribs in a dip mold before expanding into the full-size, hinged mold made of three parts. The trailed decorative thread, or “snake,” that encircles the neck of the decanter was applied after the glass was removed from the mold, and gives the form an especially artful flourish.

From the 2019 exhibition American Art, Colonial to Modern, curated by Barbara J. MacAdam, Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art

Exhibition History

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.

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.

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.

George and Helen McKearin, American Glass (New York: Crown Publishers, 1941), plate 103, #9.

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)

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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