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Vase

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

ArtistProbably etched and engraved by Joseph Locke (American, 1846-1936)

Dateabout 1885

DimensionsH: 22.7 cm (8 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.); Base Diam: 8.5 cm (3 11/32 in.)

MediumCameo glass. Gold ruby glass, overlaid with colorless and creamy opaque white glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.203

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 5

DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Deep, concave, semipolished pontil mark. After annealing, the vase was cameo-cut, engraved, and acid-etched on one side with vines, leaves, and orchid blossoms. Most of the ruby background is a seminatural or semipolished surface showing evidence of wheel cutting. The surface of white blossoms, etc., is a natural-glass finish with ruby veins of leaves and blossoms a matte finish. Upper and lower sides of lip and scalloped band immediately below acid-matte finish; underside of base and scalloped band above it acid-matte finish, with spandrels between the scallops natural-glass finish.

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert Christian, Nineteenth-Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development, rev. ed., New York, Toronto, Nelson, 1967, repr. pp. 137-139, repr. p. 137.

Fairfield, William E., Fire & Sand...the History of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio, Lezius-Hiles, 1960, repr. p. 5, top right.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Stylistic Influences on Nineteenth-Century American Glass," Antiques, vol. 78, July 1960, pp. 57-59 (Reprint 2, pp. 26-28), repr. p. 59 (Reprint 2, p. 28).

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 70.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 67.

Baer, Nell Jaffe, "Joseph Locke and His Art Glass," Auction (Parke-Bernet Galleries), vol. 2, no. 8, April 1968, pp. 10-12; reprinted The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 8-12, repr. p. 10.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 112.

Keefe, 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, repr. cover.

Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, W. C. Brown, 1968, p. 102, repr. fig. 85.

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 208.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 198, no. 221.

Grover, Ray and Lee Grover, English Cameo Glass, New York, Crown, 1980, repr. p. 4.

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. 619, no. 999, colorpl. 999, p. 579.

Zollweg, Robert, 200 Years of Glass: A History of Libbey Glass, Toledo, OH, University of Toledo Press, 2019, fig. 1-9, repr. col. p. 12.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 78, no. 262

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 68, no. 221