Candlestick

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

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

DateProbably early 1920s; possibly 1900-1906

DimensionsH: 12 in. (30.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 17/32 in. (6.4 cm); Base Diam: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.70

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 651 candlestick. Standard and socket cut with the Plain Flute pattern (six flutes). Knop below socket facet-cut. Underside of foot cut with thirty-two-pointed even-rayed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 13, n.d. (1905-10), pl. 8 (12-in. candlestick).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 18, n.d. (1918-25), pl. 47 (12-in. candlestick, $8).

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33, 1905, p. 8 (12-in. candlestick, $8).

Daniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, pp. 298-300.

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 (no. 651, 12-in. Cut Flute, $12.15).

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. 1182.