Tumble-Up (Pitcher and Drinking Glass)

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Tumble-Up (Pitcher and Drinking Glass)

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Dateabout 1910

DimensionsH (pitcher): 17.0 cm (6 11/16 in.); Base Diam (pitcher): 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.); Rim Diam (pitcher with spout): 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.); Max Diam (pitcher with handle and spout): 16.0 cm (6 9/32 in.); H (tumbler): 9.0 cm (3 17/32 in.); Rim Diam (tumbler): 7.15 cm (2 13/16 in.); Base Diam: (tumbler) 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Lillian R. Evans in memory of her mother, Bertha Hart Roscoe

Object number

1983.108

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 1199 water set. Blanks for pitcher and tumbler probably blown in molds for form and finished by tooling. Pitcher has an applied handle and an internal ring to serve as a rest for the upturned tumbler. Both pitcher and tumbler cut with Libbey pattern no. 101. Underside of pitcher base cut with a thirty-two-pointed star. Underside of tumbler base cut with a twenty-four-pointed star.

Published ReferencesWiener, Herbert and Freda Lipkowitz, Rarities in American Cut Glass, Houston, Tex., Collectors House of Books, 1975, p. 246.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 677, no. 1091.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).