Wine Bottle and Stopper

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Dateabout 1900

DimensionsH (with stopper): 14 13/16 in. (37.6 cm); H (without stopper): 12 23/32 in. (32.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/32 in. (3.1 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/32 in. (7.75 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank blown in a mold and probably cracked off. Solid stopper: probably pressed, then facet-cut.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.226A-B

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 480 wine bottle, 22-oz. Bottle. Body cut with the Senora pattern. Underside of base cut with a thirty-two-pointed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives11, n.d. (1903-1904), pp. 33, 36 ($24).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives4, n.d. (1905), pp. 33, right, 36 ($16).

Daniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, repr. p. 164, pl. 70.

Wiener, Herbert and Freda Lipkowitz, Rarities in American Cut Glass, Houston, Tex., Collectors House of Books, 1975, repr. p. 84, bottom right.

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. 672, no. 1079.

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. 63, no. 132.