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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company American, 1892-1919

Place of OriginToledo, Ohio

Date1902

DimensionsH: 79.7 cm (31 3/8 in.); Rim Diam: 70.3 cm (27 5/8 in.); Base Diam: 49.8 cm (19 5/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass; blown and cut.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.1

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Study Room GP

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, repr. p. 32.

"Libbey Glass Exhibition," Spinning Wheel, vol. 24, no. 4, April 1968, repr. p. 46.

"Glass of the Brilliant Period," Antiques, vol. 92, no. 6, repr. p. 870.

Eileen Malone, "Toledo's Exhibition in Glass," Impresario, vol. 7, no. 4, April-May 1968, repr. p. 21.

Keefe, John W., "Libbey Cut and Engraved Glass," Antiques, vol. 94, September 1968, p. 394-399 (Reprint 2, pp. 205-210), repr. p. 395, fig. 3 (Reprint 2, p. 206).

Carl U. Fauster, "The Brilliant Period, Libbey Cut Glass," Auction, Parke-Bernet Galleries, vol. 2, no. 2, October 1968, repr. p. 10.

Davidson, Marshall, The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to World War I, New York, American Heritage, 1969, repr. p. 207, fig. 360.

Pearson, J. Michael and Dorothy T. Pearson, A Study of American Cut Glass Collections, Miami Beach, Fla., authors, 1969, repr. p. 97, pl. 90.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 123.

Carl U. Fauster, "Libbey Cut Glass Masterpieces," Impresario, vol. 10, no. 5, July-August 1971, pp. 13-15, repr. p. 13.

Horton, Christine, "Cut Glass-1880-1915: 'The Brilliant Period,'" American Antiques, vol. 4, no. 5, May 1976, repr. p. 35.

Carl U. Fauster, "Famous Cut Glass Table," Hobstar, vol. 6, no. 10, June 1984, repr. pp. 1-2.

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey Cut Glass Exhibit St. Louis World's Fair 1904," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 19, 1977, repr. pp. 164-165, repr. figs. 2, 6.

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. 3, repr. p. 100.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 81, bottom; p. 105; repr. p. 161 bottom; p. 189.

Dianne H. Pilgrim, "Decorative Art: The Domestic Environment," in Brooklyn Museum, American Renaissance, pp. 139-140, repr. fig. 106 (not in exhibition).

Farrar, Estelle Sinclaire, "Brilliant Cut Glass: A Re-Interpretation," Art and Antiques, January-February 1981, pp. 86-91, repr. p. 91.

Jane Shadel Spillman, Glass from World's Fairs, 1851-1904, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1986, p. 52.

Swan, Martha Louise, American Cut and Engraved Glass of the Brilliant Period in Historical Perspective, Lombard, IL: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1986, p. 181.

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. 44, fig. 70, p. 94 (as fig. 69).

Lisa Podos, "Part II. Glass Furniture: A Statement of Technology," The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 166, Winter 1992, pp. 8, 10, fig. 12.

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. 671, no. 1076, colorpl. no. 1076, p. 762.

Stockwell, Mary, The Ohio Adventure, Layton, UT, Gibbs Smith, 2001, repr. (col.) p. 210.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 168-169, repr. (col.) p. 169.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, "Glass in glass: The Toledo Museum of Art, " Glass Club Bulletin, no. 208, Summer, 2007, repr. p. 21.

Exhibition HistoryLouisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition, St. Louis, 1904.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 61, no. 107, repr. p. 45.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, intro. by Nina A. Asharina, Shedevri Amerikanskogo Stekla, Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art, exh. cat., Moscow, Soviet Press, 1990, repr. p. 69, fig. 62, p. 70.

Label TextThis dazzling cut-glass table, along with the large Libbey punch bowl set in this gallery, was given pride of place in the Libbey exhibition at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. Both objects carried values of around $2,500—equal to about $50,000 today.