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Pitcher

ManufacturerPossibly M. and R. H. Sweeney Glass Works (American)

Place of Originpossibly United States

Date1840-1850

Dimensions8 3/8 × 3 15/16 in. (21.3 × 10 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1912.1383

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionColorless glass. Blown and finished by tooling. Applied heavy handle. Body cut with seven panels. Notched rim. Top and bottom of handle cut. Base cut with thirty-two rays.

Published ReferencesDaniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, p. 143, pl. 61, right.

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, repr. p. 5.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 343.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195, no. 56.

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 19, fig. 25, p. 92.

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. 533, no. 872, color pl. 872, p. 569.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 58, no. 56.