Compote
Compote
Manufacturer
Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company
(American, 1919 - 1935)
Date1920-1925
DimensionsRim Diam: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); H: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Object number
1951.181
Not on View
DescriptionLibbey no. 1746 compote. Bowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied pattern-molded stem with spiral twist. Joined by an applied wafer to the foot. Underside of rim and bowl engraved with floral and geometric motifs; part polished, part matte. Underside of foot cut with a star with forty-eight rays of varied lengths repeated in groups of six.
Published ReferencesLibbey pattern book, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 24, n.d. (ca. 1887-ca. 1935), no. 1746, compote.
Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 208, no. 147.
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. 735, no. 1250.
Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 147.
probably 1870-1890
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