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Candlestick

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

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH: 35.45 cm (13 31/32 in.); Rim Diam: 15.2 cm (5 31/32 in.); Base Diam: 14.25 cm (5 5/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass, overlaid with yellowish green glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.78

Not on View

DescriptionSocket and bobeche blown and finished by tooling. Applied to a blown and tooled standard. Joined by a solid-waisted knop to a slightly domed foot. Underside of foot partly ground and polished. Underside of bobeche and upper surface of foot decorated with three quatrefoil motifs joined by three curved cuts; the bobeche also has three circles.

Published ReferencesKeefe, 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, right.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 204 (TMA 1951.77).

Carl U. Fauster, "Libbey Color-Cased Glass circa 1920," Glass, vol. 1, no. 2, January-February 1973, repr. p. 34, fig. 2, right (TMA 1951.77).

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. 1187.