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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1906-1915

DimensionsH: 50.7 cm (19 31/32 in.); Rim Diam: 19.8 cm (7 25/32 in.); Base Diam: 21.9 cm (8 5/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.7

Not on View

DescriptionBlank blown, perhaps in a paste mold, and finished by tooling. Applied tooled stem and foot. Cut, partly with a gang wheel, with a pattern of unknown name: combination of geometric motifs and stylized flowers. Underside of foot cut with a large eight-pointed star formed of crosscut diamonds with small, even-rayed stars between the points of the large star.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 205, no. 110.

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. 687, no. 1117.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 61, no. 110

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).