Dish or Plaque
Dish or Plaque
Designer(and Etcher)
Joseph Locke
(American, 1846-1936)
Date1890
DimensionsDiam: 16.15 cm (6 11/32 in.)
MediumOpal glass containing some lead.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of William A. Geroe
Object number
1951.274
Not on View
DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Natural-glass finish. Round flat rough-ground pontil mark. Scene drawn through resist and acid etched. Brown pigment rubbed into etched design.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 112.
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. 601, no. 961.
Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).
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