New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Decanter with stopper

CultureGerman

Date1886

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Base: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

InscribedPaper label on bottle reads: "Golden Crown 1886 E&R Western Germany Hand Cut Lead Genuine Crystal" The E&R stands for Ebeling and Reuss Co., Philadelphia, the importers.

Credit LineJoan Foy French Collection

Object number71.7908

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 1, Section 2 Sh2

DescriptionDecanter and stopper. Bottle is pint, panel cut one-third with 12 panels flaring out and rest of body at alternating spots with 12 panels flaring inwards, short straight clear neck and flat narrow rim. Cased with vertical hues of green, blue and lavender from interstaining of stripes of pink and yellow and clear and recased with blue. Stopper is clear, solid, cylinder increasing in diameter and vertically 12 panel cut. Flat top.