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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company (American, 1919 - 1935)

Designer Arthur Douglas Nash (American, 1885-1940)

Date1931-1935

DimensionsH: 9 in. (22.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 17/32 in. (9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/32 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumGlass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens Illinois, Inc.

Object number

1969.332

Not on View

DescriptionSilhouette K-8, colorless glass, bowl blown, probably in a paste mold, cracked off and rim fire polished, attached directly to a pressed glass stem in the form of a rabbit made in a mold of two vertical sections, with an applied, tooled foot. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 22, p. 15-B, Silhouette, K-8 for the series (this form not shown).

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey's Famous Glass Menagerie," Hobbies, Feb. 1972, p. 3, fig. 3.

Revi, Albert Christian, "Libbey's Animal Fair," Spinning Wheel, June 1972, p. 8, upper right.