Decanter and Stopper

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Decanter and Stopper

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1906-1910

DimensionsH (with stopper): 31.6 cm (12 7/16 in.); H (without stopper): 24.1 cm (9 15/32 in.); Base Diam: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.61

Not on View

DescriptionDecanter: blown in a mold and finished by tooling. Body cut with eight panels and facet-cut on middle of neck, then engraved in the rock-crystal style, primarily with stone wheels, details with copper wheels, with stylized flowers (possibly a lance-leafed coreopsis, a member of the daisy family) on two sets of adjoining panels, with a stylized foliate motif on each of the other two intervening panels, with a flower (daisy) in each panel on the shoulder and fine, double-leaf geometric motif on each panel under the lip. Underside of base engraved with a pinwheel. Stopper: blown in a mold and finished by tooling. Sides cut with six panels and engraved with the same geometric double-leaf motifs as those under lip of decanter. Top engraved with one flower (daisy?). Shank and neck of decanter ground and polished for close fit.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 198, no. 76.

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. 727, no. 1228.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 76 (dated "about 1890").