Description:
Colorless lead glass, blown into a multi part mold or "blown three mold," Pattern G.II-18, pontil mark on base, lower register has straight vertical ribbing, the middle section has diamonds, the shoulders have rib molding, the neck has three applied bands of glass which are tooled with small, vertical ribs or milling (applied pulley rings with rigaree decoration around the neck), the lip is broad and flat, and the interior of the decanter has been ground to receive a stopper, the stopper is a hand pressed sunburst design with a plain circular center, (not original to the decanter). This type of decanter with applied neck ring may be referred to in a New England Glass Company advertisement in the Boston Commercial Gazette of March 27, 1820, that included "23 packages quart pully ring Decanters, plain and moulded, with ball and prest stoppers."
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