Description:
Colorless, bubbly 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. This example, often called Baroque, does not follow those cut glass patterns. The conical or sugarloaf-shaped decanter has a tapered neck and flat flared flange, and pressed sunburst stopper with tapered ground plug (not original to decanter.). The squat cylindrical body of the decanter is curved in to wide molded collar; has a tall neck with wide tooled lip; over ribs of varied lengths extending down over three sets of puffy flutes and scrolls around the middle; over wide ribs of varied heights around the circular flat base bottom with a pontil mark.
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