Water Bottle or Carafe

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Water Bottle or Carafe

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1900-1910

DimensionsH: 8 31/32 in. (22.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 23/32 in. (6.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 11/32 in. (8.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank blown in a paste mold, cut.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. John Stifel

Object number

1951.306

Not on View

DescriptionCut with a pattern of unknown name: prismatic step cut on neck, flutes on shoulder, and four hob stars alternating with four five-pointed elongated stars on body. Underside of base cut with a twenty-four-pointed star.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 203, no. 135.

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. 702, no. 1160.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 63, no. 135.