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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1917-1918

DimensionsH: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.); Rim Diam: 18.7 cm (7 11/32 in.), Base Diam: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.);

MediumAmberina glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dr. Frank B. McNierney

Object number

1933.170

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and optic-molded with nine vertical ribs, then finished by tooling. Joined by bladed knops on either side of a hollow knop pattern-molded with nine vertical ribs to a solid tooled stem. Applied foot pattern-molded with twelve vertical ribs, finished by tooling and rim folded under. Shallow, concave, polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog Toledo Museum of Art Archives34, n.d. (1917), p. 4, no. 3016 (Deep Comport).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 111.

Fauster, Carl U., Amberina 1884 and 1917, Toledo, Ohio, Antique and Historic Glass Foundation, 1970, p. 14 (repr. of page from Libbey 1917 catalogue), no. 3016.

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. 6, repr. fig. 26.

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. 611, no. 987.