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Vase

Place of OriginNew Jersey

Date1849-1860

DimensionsH: 23.4 cm (9 7/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.); Base Diam: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)

MediumPale green, opaque white, and amber glass; blown; looped decoration; stem containing 1849 Columbia half-dime.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.49

Not on View

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 43, bottom ill., second from left.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 57.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 59 (rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook).

Marvin D. Schwartz, Collectors' Guide to Antique American Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969, repr. p. 67.

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 39.

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. 147, no. 139, colorpl. 139, p. 87.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 152, repr. (col.) Fig. 64.1.

Exhibition HistoryTallinn (USSR), Museum of Applied Arts, Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum, Moscow, Museum of the State Institute of Glass, Masterpieces of American Glass, 1990, p. 13, 15, fig. 15 (col.).