Punch Bowl with Six Cups

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Punch Bowl with Six Cups

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Place of OriginToledo, Ohio, United States

Dateabout 1900

Dimensions13 13/16 × 12 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (35.1 × 30.8 × 19.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Libbey Glass Company

Object number

1915.69A-G

Not on View

DescriptionThick colorless glass. Libbey no. 573 punch bowl and stand. Bowl and stand: probably blown. Rims of bowl and stand cut. Bowl and stand intagio- and copper-wheel-engraved in the rock-crystal style with a hunting scene. Cups: Bowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied stem and foot. Bowl and foot copper-wheel-engraved in the rock-crystal style with hunt details related to punch bowl. The same trademark appears in the same place on each cup.

Label TextAn elaborate hunt scene design—engraved on the glass with a copper wheel—covers the entire surface of this punch bowl and stand and the six matching cups. Probably patterned after a late 19th-century print, depicts three women and three men on horseback in pursuit of their quarry—three foxes cleverly hidden around the bowl. Libbey Glass included this punch bowl set in their 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair display, showcasing the high level of artistry attained at their factory. Given to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1915, the set is the only example of the Libbey Glass Company’s luxury glassware presented directly to the Museum by company president and Toledo Museum of Art founder Edward Drummond Libbey.Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives38, n.d. (about 1910), pp. 8-9.

Fairfield, William E., Fire & Sand...the History of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Lezius-Hiles, 1960, repr. p. 45, top left.

Marsh, Tracy H., The American Story Recorded in Glass, Minneapolis, Minn., author, 1962, repr. p. 345, no. 295.

Revi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, repr. p. 26.

Pearson, J. Michael, and Dorothy T. Pearson, A Study of American Cut Glass Collections, Miami Beach, Fla., authors, 1969, repr. p. 96, pl. 89, repr. p. 98, pl. 91.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 116.

James MacKay, Dictionary of Turn of the Century Antiques, London, Ward Lock, 1974, pp. 168-169.

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. 2, repr. p. 152.

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey Cut Glass Exhibit, St. Louis World's Fair," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 19, 1977, repr. p. 161, fig. 1, top; p. 166, fig. 8.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 198, no. 83.

Fauster, Carl U., "More about Brilliant Cut Punch Bowls," Hobstar, vol. 6, no. 7, March 1984, repr. p. 6.

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. 41, fig. 64, p. 93.

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, pp. 718-719, nos. 1206-1207, colorpl. 1206, p. 764.

Exhibition HistorySmithsonian American Art Museum (National Museum of Fine Arts), Washington, D.C. 1979.