 | Monticello Hand-Blown Glass Decanter. This elegant decanter, with its engraved grapevine pattern, is adapted from one excavated at Monticello in 1981. The original, engraved with the word "Madeira", is of a type popular in the late 1760s and 1770s and suggests Thomas Jefferson's fondness at the time for the fortified wine from the island of Madeira. Our adaptation is hand-blown glass, etched and engraved in the same manner as the original, so slight variations may be expected. The center medallion... - Monticello Hand-Blown Glass Decanter. |
