Footed Pitcher

Place of OriginSouth Jersey or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1830-1860

DimensionsH: 25.4 cm (10 in.); W (mouth): 12.3 cm (4 27/32 in.); Max W (body): 21.2 cm (8 11/32 in.); Base Diam: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass with a slightly greenish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1955.216

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and tooled to shape. Applied opaque white and transparent sapphire-blue threads pulled up to create a loop pattern, then overlaid with colorless glass. Applied solid handle crimped and turned up at lower end. Applied sloping foot. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 57

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 82

Gunther, Charles F., "How Glass Is Made," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 1, 1972, repr. p. 15

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. 147, no. 137, colorpl. 137, p. 86.