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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Laird on December 18, 2016, 12:46:42 PM
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My interest in glass is focused on vintage drinking glasses and decanters.
This is a decanter which I bought (10 Pounds) recently. I believe it is possibly Georgian. Can it be dated? Is there a date range when this style was fashionable?
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Looks like a regency period cordial decanter and would have came in a set of 3 with a stand but its hard to really say with the photo provided
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believe these barrel shaped spirit bottles can date to George IV - Regency period i.e. somewhere in the region of the last decade of the C18 until the end of George IV (1830), and agree they sometimes were found in frames - but always wise to be cautious initially as there are copies of most styles. Large relief diamonds - as seen here - were often a feature on such pieces. Sometimes the shape of the stopper can also help to date, but it's unlikely that you're going to pin an actual date on such a bottle, if that was what you were hoping - antique too, rather than vintage.
Would be helpful if you are able to provide bigger pictures, and if possible let us see a picture of the underside of the decanter - at the moment your pix aren't big enough to see details. Would also be of interest to know the height of your bottle - it won't help remotely with dating, but the more information available makes you glass of greater interest.
Have you looked on line at various shapes etc., and is that why you feel this is possibly Late Georgian?
P.S. the underside of your bottle, if period, should show a very wide but probably shallow depression where the scar was ground away - sometimes these Georgian bottles can actually have a double depression - one slightly less wide sitting inside a wider one.
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in case of interest, here is an example of the double depression under the spirit square.
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Thanks for responding.
Height to the pouring lip is 6.5 inches and to the top of the stopper 8 inches.
The base is a single large dished depression taking up the whole area of the base. Sorry, unable to take a pic without drinking all the whisky inside and it's too early in the morning even for me.
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Perhaps this is a better pic.
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you could of course have decanted the booze and then photographed the underside - still, dare say it'll all be gone by Hogmanay ;)
It does sound right for the period.