Tumbler

Place of OriginProbably Bohemia or Germany

Date1870-1900

DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Rim Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass; bowl blown and finished by tooling, probably applied and tooled base, cut, ground, polished, and engraved.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1958.66

Not on View

DescriptionBody and base stained ruby; medallion stained amber. Body cut with vertical panels and a circular medallion. Outer edge of rim cut back. Collar above base facet-cut, and tapering side of base cut with a geometric pattern. Underside of base ground and polished. Amber medallion engraved with a stag in a woodland setting.

Published ReferencesFairfield, William E., Fire & Sand...the History of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, vol. 1, Cleveland, OH, Lezius-Hiles, 1960, repr. p. 5.

"In the Museums," Antiques, vol. 75, 1959, repr. p. 295.

Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 102.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 431.

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. 792, no. 1347.

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