decanter
Object NameDecanter with Stopper
Made FromGlass
Date1701-1800
Place Madepossibly Germany
Size(a&b) H: 25.5 cm; (a) H: 21.8 cm, D (base): 7.6 cm; (b) H: 7.9 cm
Accession Number57.3.173 B
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionTranslucent milk glass with faint grey-like tint; free-blown, enameled, gilded and cut. a) Roughly ovoid body with lower section being straight-sided and tapering towards concave base with ground pontil mark, tapering and cylindrical neck; b) stopper with pointed and faceted (paneled) finial; multicolored enameled decoration: the obverse shows the 3/4 view of a hunter turned to the right and holding a gun, semi-circle frame of scrolls and branches; one large flower spray on the reverse, smaller flower sprays and a few gilded leaf-sprays interspersed between the main motifs, gilded rim and partly gilded stopper.Provenance
Source
James H. Rose
(1899-1975)
