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Place of OriginEurope

Date1885-1910

DimensionsH: 18.0 cm (7 3/16 in.); H (bowl): 7.0 cm (2 3/4 in.); Rim Diam: 15.75 cm (6 3/16 in.); Base Diam: 7.25 cm (2 27/32 in.)

MediumAmberina-type non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.198

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DescriptionBlown in a full-size female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern and a plain base plate. Applied finely ribbed pattern-molded handle, twisted and tooled. Slightly concave, semipolished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesKeefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, p. 6, no. 98, repr. fig. 25.

Fairfield, William E., Fire & Sand...the History of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Lezius-Hiles, 1960, repr. p. 12, left.

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. 795, no. 1351.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8). The Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 78, no. 257.