MOLD-BLOWN Quart Decanter, with its hard-to-find hollow spherical mold blown stopper

MOLD-BLOWN FLINT GLASS DECANTER WITH SPHERICAL MOLD BLOWN STOPPER
Circa : 1820's
Both decanter and stopper mouth-blown into matching 3-part molds, the elongated barrel shape decanter with broad lip, slender neck, in the mold pattern cataloged in McKearin's classic book AMERICAN GLASS as G II-18, diamond diaper between bands of vertical fluting.
The base is deeply indented with rough pontil (where removed from the blow pipe) surrounded by radiating diamonds.

According to McKearin, geometric patterns like this are nearly always American, although similar mold-blown glass was blown in Ireland around the 1820's.

Height : 10” to top of stopper
Provenance : collection of the late Major Frank D. Welch, Alexandria, Virginia
# 2504 ......................................................................SOLD