Purple decanter bottle

On display

Details

  • Title

    Purple decanter bottle

  • Associated place

    England (place of creation)
    Holland (place of creation)
  • Date

    late 17th century
  • Material and technique

    glass

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    19 cm (height)
    12.6 cm max (diameter)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Henry Rissik Marshall and his wife Margaret Monica Somerville, in memory of their only child William Somerville Marshall, through the Art Fund, 1957.

  • Museum location

    Second floor | Gallery 48 | Still-life Paintings
  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1957.24.2.1

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Further reading

Newby, Martine S., Glass of Four Millennia, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 39 on p. 54, illus. p. 54 fig. 39

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