Footed Jug

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1915-1919

DimensionsH: 35.3 cm (13 29/32 in.); Max W (spout to handle): 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.); Base Diam: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.19

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 1361 jug. Blank blown, probably in a paste mold and finished by tooling. Applied tooled handle. Joined by a heavy tooled collar to a hollow domed foot that may have been pressed and finished by tooling. No pontil mark. Outer underside of foot ground and polished. Cut and engraved with Libbey pattern no. 470, probably with stone wheels; partly matte, partly polished.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art AR-17, n.d. (1918-25), sheet 30, numbered 51, left (no. 1361, 2-quart jug, no. 470, $20).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art AR-18, n.d. (1918-25), sheet 33, right (no. 1361/470, $27).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art AR-19, n.d. (1918-25), sheet 30, right (no. 1361/470, $27).

Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, Toledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1968, p. 64, no. 149.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 201, no. 149.

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. 689, no. 1123.

Richmond, Andrew, The Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1860-1945 Lancaster, Ohio, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, 2015, repr. (col.) p. 57, no. 61.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, 1968.

Lancaster, Ohio, The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1860-1945, Feb. 7-May 17, 2015.