Banquet Lamp

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Dateabout 1900

DimensionsH overall 85.8 cm (33 25/32 in.); H font 28.0 cm (11 1/32 in.); H globe 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.); H base 45.9 cm (18 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.3

Not on View

DescriptionThe lamp is assembled from four parts: foot, base, font, and globe. Blanks blown and finished by tooling. Cut with the so-called sunburst pattern.

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, repr. p. 24.

Katharine Morrison McClinton, Collecting American Victorian Antiques, New York, Scribner, 1966, repr. p. 101, bottom right.

Eileen Malone, "Toledo's Exhibition in Glass," Impresario, vol. 7, no. 4, April-May 1968, p. 59, repr. p. 26.

Pearson, J. Michael and Dorothy T. Pearson, A Study of American Cut Glass Collections, Miami Beach, Fla., authors, 1969, repr. p. 60, left.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 118.

Pearson, J. Michael, Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass, 1880-1917, 3 vols., vol 1, Geometric Conceptions; vol. 2, Realistic Patterns; vol. 3, Geometric Motifs, Miami Beach, Fla., author, 1975, 1977, 1978, vol. 1, repr. p. 198.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 212, no. 116; repr. p. 235, no. 2.

Farrar, Estelle Sinclaire, "Brilliant Cut Glass: A Re-Interpretation," Art and Antiques, January-February 1981, pp. 86-91, p. 91.

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. 667, no. 1070.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 62, no. 116; The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).