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Candlestick

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company American, 1919 - 1935

DateProbably 1920s

DimensionsH: 15 25/32 in. (40.1 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.95 cm); Base Diam: 6 13/32 in. (16.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank for socket and standard blown and finished by tooling, applied foot.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.69

Not on View

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5, 1908, pl. 34 (14-in. candlestick, $10; 12-, 10-, 8- and 6-in. sizes also illustrated, but no 16-in. size).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 13, n.d. (1905-10), pl. 7 (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 14, n.d. (1907), p. 26 (same as Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5).

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever, The Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company, Ames-Kiebler Co., n.d. (1920-25), repr. in Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 301 (candlestick no. 826, 16 in., $24.30 [6- to 14-in. sizes also listed]).

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. 710, no. 1183.