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Celery Vase

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH: 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm); Rim Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Base Diam: 3 29/32 in. (9.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Hugh J. Smith, Jr.

Object number

1948.34

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Washington pattern, with a one-piece cap ring that formed the area above each arch and the rim, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior of the bowl, in conjunction with a plain male plunger, or plug, that formed the plain underside of the slightly domed foot. The moldmarks extend from the middle edge of the foot through the edge of the hexagonal stem upward in the bottom of the V-shaped wedge between the flute and the three printies, ending at the top of the wedge. Rim slightly everted by tooling. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195, no. 51.

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. 488, no. 803.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 58, no. 51.