Sugar Bowl with Love Birds from the Wisteria Series

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Sugar Bowl with Love Birds from the Wisteria Series

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

DateProbably 1925

DimensionsH: 7.4 cm (2 29/32 in.); Rim Diam: 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.); W (with handles): 15.3 cm (6 1/32 in.); Base Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.224

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 220 sugar bowl. Body pressed, then finished by tooling. Applied tooled handles. No pontil mark. Cut and engraved with the Wisteria pattern on one side with branches extending to the opposite side on which are two large billing budgerigars; partly matte, partly rock-crystal finish.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 17, n.d. (1918-25), last page (Wisteria pattern).

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. 293 (no. 220 cream pitcher and sugar bowl, $9.50).

Fauster, Carl U., "Brilliant Period Cut Glass," Antiques Dealer, vol. 25, no. 7, July 1973, repr. 38.

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. 738, no. 1257.