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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co.

Date1920-1925

DimensionsH: 46.4 cm (18 9/32 in.); Rim Diam: 17.0 cm (6 11/16 in.); Base Diam: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass, overlaid with bluish purple glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.8

Not on View

DescriptionBody blown, probably in a paste mold, and finished by tooling. Applied and tooled solid knop, stem, and foot. Underside of base ground flat, with large, deep pontil mark in center, and polished. Body decorated with polished stone-wheel cutting of geometric motifs and stylized baskets of flowers. Upper surface of foot cut with polished geometric motifs.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., "Libbey Color-Cased Glass circa 1920," Glass, vol. 1, no. 2, January-February 1973, p. 38, repr. fig. 5, p. 33.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 203, no. 154.

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. 730, no. 1237.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 154.