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Bowl

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1885-1886

DimensionsMax Rim Diam: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm); H: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

MediumPomona glass; bowl blown and finished by tooling, acid etched.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1958.68

Not on View

DescriptionApplied gather on base tooled to form four feet with a decorative point between each pair. Lower two-thirds of bowl acid etched to produce a multitude of intertwined lines and circles around a garland of cornflowers and leaves. Top of bowl, foot, leaves, and parts of flowers decorated with a light amber stain, and parts of flowers with a light blue stain. Concave, polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pl. 68, bottom, second from left; pp. 153, 156.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 70.

Baer, Nell Jaffe, "Joseph Locke and His Art Glass," Auction (Parke-Bernet Galleries), vol. 2, no. 8, April 1968, pp. 10-12; reprinted The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 8-12, repr. p. 11.

Revi, Albert Christian, Nineteenth-Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development, rev. ed., New York Toronto, Nelson, 1967, p. 62, second from left.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 112.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 196, no. 210; repr. p. 225, fig. 2, right.

Barret, Richard Carter, Identification of American Art Glass, Manchester, VT, Forward's Color Reproductions, 1964, pl. 5, middle row, no. 1 (different floral pattern).

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 235, bottom.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 353.

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, 1994, p. 616, no. 995, p. 579.

Zollweg, Robert, 200 Years of Glass: A History of Libbey Glass, Toledo, OH, University of Toledo Press, 2019, fig. 1-10, repr. col. p. 12.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 79, no. 264.

Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 67, no. 210.

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