Ice-Cream Plate

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Ice-Cream Plate

ArtistPossibly cut by John Rufus Denman (American)

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

DateProbably 1892-1895

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank blown, spun out, and finished by tooling.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.87

Not on View

DescriptionCut with a variant of the Isabella pattern.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 2, n.d. (1893-94), p. 29, bottom right.

Daniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, pp. 251-253, pl. 105 (patent).

Revi, Albert Christian, American Cut and Engraved Glass, New York, Nelson, 1965, p. 28, top right, p. 29.

Pearson, J. Michael, Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass, 1880-1917, 3 vols., vol 1, Geometric Conceptions; vol. 2, Realistic Patterns; vol. 3, Geometric Motifs, Miami Beach, Fla., author, 1975, 1977, 1978, vol. 1, repr. p. 137, top right (called "crossed bars").

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 200, no. 81.

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. 661, no. 1051.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Cut Glass of the Brilliant Period, exhibition, February 5-26, 1967 (no catalog).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 81.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).