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Candlestick

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co.

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH: 26.3 cm (10 11/32 in.); Rim Diam: 7.55 cm (3 in.); Base Diam: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.)

MediumColorless and black (deep amethyst) glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.72

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 1743 candlestick. Socket and bobeche blown and finished by tooling. Applied amethyst rim. Joined by an amethyst tooled pulley knop to a colorless blown and tooled standard. Applied to an amethyst tooled knop and foot. Slightly concave, polished pontil mark. Socket and lower part of standard cut with a polished geometric pattern.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives16, n.d. (probably 1920-25), p. 1 (no. 1743).

Keefe, John W., "Libbey Cut and Engraved Glass," Antiques, vol. 94, September 1968, p. 394-399 (Reprint 2, pp. 205-210), p. 397, repr. fig. 9.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 204, no. 155.

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. 711, no. 1186.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 155.