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Candlestick

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

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH: 10 7/32 in. (26.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass, overlaid with black (deep amethyst) glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.79

Not on View

DescriptionBobeche and socket blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a bulbous knop to the solid tooled standard that was drawn from the blown and tooled base. Socket, standard, and base cut with geometric motifs with bands of cut diamonds at juncture of standard and base.

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, left.

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey Color-Cased Glass circa 1920," Glass, vol. 1, no. 2, January-February 1973, p. 38, repr. p. 34, fig. 2, center.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 204, no. 156.

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. 712, no. 1190.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 156.