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Jug

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1896-1906

DimensionsH: 6 11/32 in. (16.1 cm); W (across mouth): 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm); Base Diam: 5 29/32 in. (15.0 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank blown in a paste mold and finished by tooling, applied handle.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.26

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 81 quart jug. Body cut with the Somerset pattern. Underside of base cut with a large twenty-pointed hob star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 11, n.d. (1903-4), pp. 17 (pattern), 22 ($19.50).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 4, n.d. (1905), pp. 20 (pattern), 25 ($13.00).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 201, no. 96.

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. 674, no. 1083.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 60, no. 96.

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