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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company (American, 1919 - 1935)

Dateabout 1920

DimensionsH: 13 9/16 in. (34.45 cm); Rim Diam: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm); Base Diam: 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.54

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DescriptionLibbey no. 659 14-inch vase. Bowl pressed, or possibly blown in a mold. Top and rim sheared and tooled. Joined by a spherical knop containing a teardrop above a sloping stem to a flat circular foot. Concave, polished pontil mark. Engraved with stone wheels with the Cherry Blossom pattern, partly matte and partly polished.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 202, no. 150, p. 294 (repr. of page from Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 17, n.d. [1918-1925]), sheet 35, top left (no. 659, 14 in.): $11.

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. 1243.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 150.