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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1900-1906

DimensionsH: 34.75 cm (13 11/16 in.); Rim Diam: 7.4 cm (2 29/32 in.); Base Diam: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.50

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 708 vase. Blank blown in a mold and finished by tooling. Cut with the pattern called at first Brilliant and later New Brilliant. Underside of base cut with a thirty-two-pointed even-rayed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 37, n.d. (1901), p. 39 (no. 551, 16-in. vase, Brilliant pattern, $28).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 8, n.d. (1904-5), p. 50, right (no. 708 vase, Brilliant pattern); p. 51 (14-in. vase $14).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 4, n.d. (1905), (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives8).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5, 1908, p. 33, left (no. 708, 14-in. vase, New Brilliant, $14).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 6, 1909, pl. 32, left (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives5).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 7, 1910, pl. 24 (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives5).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 9, n.d. (1906-7), p. 13, right (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives5, p. 15, $17.50).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 202, no. 113.

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. 679, no. 1094.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Cut Glass of the Brilliant Period, exhibition, February 5-26, 1967 (no catalog).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 62, no. 113.

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