Nightcap Bottle and Stopper Bottle

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Nightcap Bottle and Stopper Bottle

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company (American, 1919 - 1935)

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH (with stopper): 15.0 cm (5 29/32 in.); H (without stopper): 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); Rim Diam: 5.3 cm (2 3/32 in.); Base Diam: 6.0 cm (2 11/32 in.); Max W (body): 10.4 cm (4 3/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.211

Not on View

DescriptionBottle and stopper bottle probably blown and finished by tooling. Body of bottle intaglio- and stone-wheel-engraved with two ears of corn, cornhusks, and leaves. Base of bottle ground and polished, with shallow, polished pontil mark in center. Closure of stopper bottle tooled, ground, and polished. Base of stopper bottle ground and polished. Shank ground and polished to fit polished neck of stopper bottle.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 208, no. 100 (dated about 1900).

Boggess, Bill and Louise Boggess, Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass, New York, Crown, 1984, p. 30, no. 107 (same type of bottle).

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. 736, no. 1254.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 60, no. 100 (dated about 1900).