Description:
Colorless lead glass, mold-blown decanter, which is a type that was made in the early 19th century in America. The technology of blowing glass into patterned molds was brought to America from Bristol, England by glassblower Thomas Cains. Cains emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked for the Phoenix Glass Works and the South Boston Glass Works. Collectors of American glass commonly call this type of glass, "Blown Three Mold" glass given the fact that many of these objects were blown into a mold of three or more hinged parts. The patterns of blown three mold glass commonly imitate more expensive Anglo-Irish cut glass patterns. The conical or sugarloaf-shaped decanter had a blown, ball-shaped stopper patterned with a sunburst and band of diamonds and a ground end to assure a tighter fit with the decanter. The body has a flat flared flange over a tapered neck; is pattern molded with flute, and has an alternating band of sunbursts and diamond diapering over vertical flutes; and with a circular flat base with broken pontil mark and a sunburst molding.
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