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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Dateabout 1900

DimensionsH: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.); W: 7.6 cm (3 in.); Base Diam: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)

Mediumcolorless glass, cased with translucent aqua glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. F.A. Dewey

Object number

1950.1

Not on View

DescriptionBlank blown in a mold and finished by tooling. Applied handle. Cut with a pattern of unknown name: geometric motifs--stars, fans, and strawberry diamonds. Exterior of handle facet-cut. Underside of base cut with a thirty-two-pointed even-rayed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives15, 1908, pp. 43, 128.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 210, no. 99.

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. 678, no. 1092, colorpl. 1092, p. 763.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Cut Glass of the Brilliant Period, exhibition, February 5-26, 1967 (no catalog).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 61, no. 99.