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Honey Jug and Cap

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)
Dateabout 1890
DimensionsH: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/32 in. (5.65 cm); Max Body W: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
MediumColorless glass; blank blown, possibly in a mold, and finished by tooling.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Object number
1951.216
Not on View
DescriptionCut with the Victoria pattern. Exterior of handle facet-cut. Underside of base cut with a twenty-four-pointed star. Silver-plated collar and hinged cap, unmarked.
Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 2, n.d. (1893-94), p. 18 (sugar bowl and cream pitcher, Victoria pattern).

Daniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, pp. 197-200, pl. 83 (patent).

Pearson, J. Michael and Dorothy T. Pearson, American Cut Glass for the Discriminating Collector, New York, Vantage, 1965, p. 44, top right (pitcher in this pattern, called Middlesex).

Pearson, J. Michael, Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass, 1880-1917, 3 vols., vol 1, Geometric Conceptions; vol. 2, Realistic Patterns; vol. 3, Geometric Motifs, Miami Beach, Fla., author, 1975, 1977, 1978, vol. 1, p. 76, bottom right (pitcher).

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 216.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 199, no. 74.

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. 661, no. 1053.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Cut Glass of the Brilliant Period, exhibition, February 5-26, 1967 (no catalog).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 74.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).

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