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Vase and Cover

Place of OriginCentral Europe

Dateabout 1890-1900

Dimensionswith cover: 29 11/16 in. (75.5 cm)
without cover: 21 7/8 × 4 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (55.5 × 11.8 × 17.5 cm)

Mediumnonlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus

Object number

1913.540

Not on View

DescriptionColorless non-lead glass, cased with non-lead gold-ruby glass. Vase: body blown and finished by tooling. Joined directly to a blown and tooled base that is one continuous piece, with a hollow interior up to the join with the body. Cover: blown and finished by tooling. Applied knop. Rim of cover, rim of body, and rim of base ground and polished. No pontil mark on either the base or the cover. The piece is cut over its entire surface, very precisely, through the layer of ruby casing.

Published ReferencesDaniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, repr. pl. 31, center.

Daniel, Dorothy, "New England Glass in Toledo," Antiques, vol. 61, April 1952, repr. p. 61 top.

Fairfield, William E., Fire & Sand...the History of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Lezius-Hiles, 1960, repr. p. 5.

Revi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, repr. p. 21.

Eileen B. Birk, "Current and Coming: A Famous Name in Glass," Antiques, vol. 93, March 1968, repr. p. 286.

"Libbey Glass: A Continuing Tradition of 150 Years," The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 85, March 1968, repr. p. 2, cover;

Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art: Libbey Glass Exhibit at The Toledo Museum of Art," Connoisseur, vol. 168, no. 675, May 1968, repr. p. 67.

Davidson, Marshall, The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to World War I, New York, American Heritage, 1969, repr. p. 275, fig. 358.

Pearson, J. Michael, and Dorothy T. Pearson, A Study of American Cut Glass Collections, Miami Beach, Fla., authors, 1969, repr. p. 93, pl. 86.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 94.

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, p. 9, repr. fig. 13.

James Norbury, The World of Victoriana, London, 1972, p. 32, repr. fig. 27.

Pearson, J. Michael, Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass, 1880-1917, 3 vols., vol 1, Geometric Conceptions; vol. 2, Realistic Patterns; vol. 3, Geometric Motifs, Miami Beach, Fla., author, 1975, 1977, 1978, vol. 3, repr. p. 215.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 194.

Bishop, Robert, and Patricia Coblentz, The World of Antiques, Art, and Architecture in Victorian America, New York, Dutton, 1979, repr. p. 173.

Bishop, Robert, American Decorative Arts: 360 Years of Creative Design, New York, Abrams, 1982, p. 187, repr. p. 196.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 812.

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. 794, no. 1349.

Exhibition HistoryNew York World's Fair, 1939.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 66, no. 182, repr. p. 33.

19th Century America, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, n.p., no. 107, repr. (col.).