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Free blown, rectangular or square base with pontil, straight walls, sloping shoulders, short neck, flared lip, ball-shaped finial ground stopper, shoulders decorated with gilt foliage and stars, top half of stopper finial gilded; gilt numbers in decanters occassionally have corresponding gilt number on stopper.
decanters
gilding
soda lime glass
glass (material)
foliation (pattern)
scrolling foliage
stars
Glass
Gilded
Foliage
Star
DECANTER
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
8 x 2.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.527.6AB
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