Floor Lamp

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Dateabout 1904

DimensionsH together: 146.7 cm (57 3/4 in.); H without chimney: 135.0 cm (53 3/8 in.); H chimney: 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.); H globe: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.); Diam globe: 26.0 cm (10 1/4 in.); H font: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.); H standard: 56.2 cm (22 1/8 in.); H base: 35.7 cm (14 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.4

Not on View

DescriptionMade in five parts: chimney, globe, font, standard, and base. Blanks blown and finished by tooling. All parts cut with the Corinthian pattern.

Label TextLike much of the Libbey cut glass in this gallery, this lamp and shorter the Banquet Lamp beside it were featured in the company’s display at the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. They each consist of five separately made parts: chimney, globe, font, standard, and base.Published ReferencesDaniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, pp. 279-282 (pattern).

Revi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, repr. p. 36; "Libbey Glass Exhibition," Spinning Wheel, vol. 24, no. 4, April 1968, repr. p. 47.

Malone, Eileen, "Toledo's Exhibition in Glass," Impresario, vol. 7, no. 4, April-May 1968, repr. p. 21.

Davidson, Marshall, The American Heritage History of Antiques from the Civil War to World War I, New York, American Heritage, 1969, repr. fig. 361.

Pearson, J. Michael and Dorothy T. Pearson, A Study of American Cut Glass Collections, Miami Beach, Fla., 1969, repr. p. 95, pl. 88.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 122.

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey Cut Glass Exhibit St. Louis World's Fair 1904," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 19, 1977, repr. p. 167, fig. 9.

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. 3, repr. p. 116, p. 109 (loving cup).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 212, no. 117; Swan, p. 181.

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. 673, no. 1080.

Exhibition HistoryLouisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition, St. Louis, 1904.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 62, no. 117.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).