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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)
Date1893
DimensionsH: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.); Max L: 7.7 cm (3 1/32 in.); Max W: 7.35 cm (2 29/32 in.)
MediumColorless non-lead glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of William E. Levis
Object number
1951.299
Not on View
DescriptionPressed in a one-piece female mold bearing the portrait head of a woman and the surrounding surface by a rounded male plunger bearing the words, with a cap ring to form the lower part of the background. Portrait acid etched to produce matte finish.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 102.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 228, fig. 3, upper left.

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. 566, no. 950.

Exhibition HistoryWorld's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 67, no. 196.

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