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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co.

DateProbably 1924; possibly 1915-1925

DimensionsH: 44.5 cm (17 17/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.4 cm (4 3/32 in.); Base Diam: 12.8 cm (5 1/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass, lightweight.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.53

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DescriptionLibbey no. 1413 18-inch vase. Body and foot blown, probably in paste molds, then finished by tooling. Joined by a heavy rounded knop to an applied foot. No pontil mark. Engraved with stone wheels with Libbey pattern no. 0386; unpolished. Underside of foot ground and polished.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives18, n.d. (1918-25), sheet 111, right.

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives19, n.d. (1918-25), sheet 111, right.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 242, fig. 3; p. 180 (repr. of advertisement in National Geographic, vol. 36, December 1919).

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. 733, no. 1244.