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Knife Rest

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1895-1925

DimensionsH: 4.0 cm (1 9/16 in.); L: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.218

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 314 knife rest. Blank, including the pattern, probably pressed. Cut with the cut lapidary pattern. Each end cut with a six-pointed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 3, 1896, p. 13, bottom right (no. 316, knife rest, cut lapidary, $3.50).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 32, 1904, p. 37, top right (no. 316, knife rest, cut lapidary, $2.50).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33, 1905, p. 8 (same as AR-32).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 14, n.d. (1907), p. 24, bottom left (same as AR-32).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5, 1908, pl. 35, bottom middle (same as AR-32).

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever, The Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company, Ames-Kiebler Co., n.d. (1920-25), [repr. in Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979,, p. 301 (no. 314, 4 1/2-in. knife rest, cut lapidary, $3.60).

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. 692, no. 1131.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 63, no. 141.

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