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Description, References and Size

This is a French tea pot shaped decanter with green over plain cased glass with vertical panels cut through the green into the clear. It has a short pouring spout pointing out at roughly 45% with an applied handle that loops over the top. Made by St. Louis, Munzthal, Lorraine, circa, 1925-30.

This is the best quality French decanter I own. I have also put this in the claret jugs section as it is so weird, but does have a handle, which in my book makes it a jug. The stopper fits nice and tightly, and using this would be quite cool as you could pour out your guests drinks like cups of tea.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, Page 355.

Height: 6.5 inches

Width: 7 inches

This is a French tea pot shaped decanter with red over plain cased glass with vertical panels cut through the red into the clear. It has a short pouring spout pointing out at roughly 45% with an applied handle that loops over the top. Made by St. Louis, Munzthal, Lorraine, circa, 1925-30.

I have the pictures of this decanter and the one above from different aspects in order to give a better overall persepctive of these unusual decanters. These decanters do also come in blue and there are also slight variations on them.

Reference: The Decanter Ancient to Modern, Andy McConnell, Page 355.

Height: 6.5 inches

Width: 7 inches

An urn shaped decanter with a gray body, and amber foot and stem, the stem being wrythen and having a flamiform join to the body. The stopper matches the bottle in colour and form with an amber peg and stem and blown grey top part. Made by Georges Sand mid-twentieth century.

This is an elegant decanter that seems to take it's style queues from the designs of Simon Gate from Orrefors in the 1930s. I know nothing about the Georges Sand company as all the references to it I can find are in French. I do know that this decanter came in at least one other colour way, with the brown parts in bright green and the grey as it is here.

Whilst it may seem tall the stem, and long neck and stopper mean the body is quite small and holds a small amount.

Height: 12.5 inches

Width: 3.6 inches

A late 18th or early 19th century French decanter. This is a club shaped decanter, with a stylised engraved flower twining around it, amd moulded lozenge stopper.

This decanter has elements that are like period English decanters, but seems all wrong in the flesh. I am not certain the glass is leaded glass to start with as it has a different look about it. The moulded stopper is shaped like an English one but isn't polished. It is just not well made enough, even when compared with English glass that is entirely plain and undecorated and that would have been cheaply made.

Height: 11 inches

Width: 4.25 inches

A late 18th or early 19th century French decanter. This is a shouldered shaped decanter, engraved with two bands of stylised foliage, one around the body and one around the neck, in a field of small flowers. The engraved patterns do have some remaining gilding in them. It has a moulded lozenge stopper.

This shape of decanter was made in the UK, however, the glass is soda glass putting a pattern on like wall paper seems to have been a very French thing to do, which is why I am going with French for this decanter. I bought it from France too.

Height: 12.5 inches

Width: 4.5 inches

A late 18th or early 19th century French decanter. This is a shouldered shaped decanter, engraved with a stylised foliage around neck, in a field of of what appear to be cornucopia with flowers. It has a moulded lozenge stopper.

This decanter is very like the previous one, but one thing that is not clear from these photos is how large these decanters are, with each one capable of holding at least a litre.

Height: 12.5 inches

Width: 4.5 inches

A late 18th or early 19th century French decanter. This is a club shaped decanter, engraved with a stylised engraved flower twining around it, three neck rings, and a moulded blown ball stopper.

This decanter is not like English decanters, it appears to be soda glass, the stopper is like nothing you will see on English decanters of the same period. The stylised engraving is a bit like that you see on some Irish decanters.

Height: 11 inches

Width: 4.25 inches

This is a Charles X shaft and globe shaped decanter. It has a star cut base, shallow hobnail cut body, panel cut shoulders, three facet cut neck rings, and a ten sided pouring lip. The stopper is a solid ball cut with shallow hobnails to match the body of the decanter. Made circa 1820-30.

Charles X is the French equivalent of Regency, which is where I had previously placed this decanter and the one below. As they say, you live and learn, and I have now seen other decanters like this on sale on French eBay. As they seemed such an out of place shape for UK Regency decanters I feel shifting them here is the appropriate thing to do.

English reference books on French glass are pretty sketchy. The are plenty of coffee table type books on glass that you can't afford (Daum, Galle, Lalique, etc..) but not much the glass that people use. I learned more by just looking at what was selling in France on eBay. A word of warning is that eBay is not the font of all knowledge, there is stuff everyone gets wrong, you just need to keep looking and try and figure it out.

Height: 10 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

This is a Charles X shaft and globe shaped decanter. It has a star cut base, shallow hobnail cut body, panel cut shoulders, and two faux neck rings. The stopper is a hollow ball cut with shallow hobnails to match the body of the decanter, with radial cutting to the top. Made circa 1820-30.

This decanter is similar to the one above, but I think the spiral effect this one has is nicer than the straight forward hobnail of the larger decanter. The mace head style stoppers seem to be a particularly French thing of this period and in the UK you only something similar on small spirit bottles.

Height: 8.5 inches

Width: 4 inches

This is a square moulded decanter with shallow cutting to the body with motifs of stars and ribbons gilded on the shoulder of the bottle. The disc stopper has shallow radial cutting and a gilt edge. Made by Daum, possibly circa 1900.

The date I have given here is pure speculation on my part. What I can tell you is I have seen this marked for Daum and I have seen them come in a two box set. Stylistically they appear to be much earlier, or at least they would be if they were English, but they are French, so I have no idea really. Nice decanter though.

Height: 10.5 inches

Width: 3 inches

This is a bottle shaped decanter with panel cutting around the base. There is a break in shoulder, which are panel cut. The neck is slice cut and there is an applied ring near the top, but there is no pouring lip. The stopper is a vertical column that is slice cut. Made circa. late 19th century.

Again the dating is pure speculation on my part. The tall shape, panel cutting and shoulder break are completely French features though. I have seen quite a lot of these when I have been in France.

Height: 13 inches

Width: 3.25 inches