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

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 20.3 cm (8 in.); Rim Diam: 21.2 cm (8 11/32 in.); Base Diam: 12.0 cm (4 23/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.185

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed, probably upright, in a one-piece female mold bearing the Sharp Diamond pattern, with a cap ring that formed the edge and top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and round foot. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the standard and circular disk at its base, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the sloping circular foot, by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior and underside of the foot. Rim fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 193, no. 48.

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. 479, no. 784.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 76, no. 229

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 57, no. 48