Three-Footed Bowl

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Three-Footed Bowl

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1910-1915

DimensionsH: 18.85 cm (7 13/32 in.); Rim Diam: 16.6 cm (6 17/32 in.); Base Diam: 14.4 cm (5 21/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.29

Not on View

DescriptionBlank probably blown in a patterned mold containing the three precast trifid legs and probably also major elements of the pattern, and the rim finished by tooling. Cut, partly with a gang wheel, with a pattern of unknown name: vertical lines around the top, a row of six large and six small hob stars alternating around the middle, and three groups of flowers and leaves, each within a pentagon, around the lower part. Underside cut with a small hob star within a triangle.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 204, no. 105.

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. 691, no. 1128.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 61, no. 105.