Vase
Vase
Manufacturer
Libbey Glass Company
(American, 1892-1919)
ManufacturerOR
Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company
(American, 1919 - 1935)
Date1915-1925
DimensionsH 46.8 cm (18 7/16 in.); D rim 24. 2 cm (9 1/2 in.); D base 24.4 cm (9 19/32 in.)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Object number
1951.6
Not on View
DescriptionLibbey no. 1119 vase. Blown, perhaps in a paste mold, and finished by tooling. Upper part of base cut with strawberry-diamond pattern. Cut with foliage on body and geometric motifs under rim. Engraved with two stags: Libbey pattern no. 387. One deer (with [sc]1915[r] below it) has polished engraving, the other deer is matte.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 124.
Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 212, no. 144; repr. p. 235, fig. 1.
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. 737, no. 1256.
Exhibition HistoryThe 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 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. 63, no. 144, repr. p. 50.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).
1650-1700
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
1940-1945
3rd-4th century CE
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