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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company American, 1892-1919

Manufacturer New England Glass Company American, 1818-1888

Date1883-1893

DimensionsH: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Diam (rim with handle): 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Base Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm)

MediumAmberina glass; blown and diamond-optic-molded, then finished by tooling.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Marie W. Greenhalgh in memory of her parents, Alice Libbey Walbridge and William S. Walbridge

Object number

1958.50

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Nineteenth-Century Art Glass, New York, M. Barrows, 1952, pl. 3, bottom row, right.

Barret, Richard Carter, Identification of American Art Glass, Manchester, VT, Forward's Color Reproductions, 1964, pl. 2, top row, no. 3.

Fauster, Carl U., Amberina 1884 and 1917, Toledo, Ohio, Antique and Historic Glass Foundation, 1970, p. 8, no. 12 (repr. of page from Joseph Locke's sketchbook of about 1885).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 348, fig. 309, bottom right, center row, left.

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. 605, no. 971.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8) (lent by Mrs. Greenhalgh).