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Candlestick

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

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH: 35.6 cm (14 1/32 in.); Rim Diam: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.74

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DescriptionSocket and standard blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a small rounded knop. Applied foot. Ground and polished pontil mark. Stone-wheel-engraved with six "tulip" buds above a geometric band around socket, three sets of geometric motifs around the upper section of standard, and three sets of blossoms around the lower section. Outer edge of underside of foot engraved with stone wheels with three sets each of one blossom and two buds with bands of dots and dashes between.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 204, no. 152.

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. 734, no. 1247.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 152.