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

DateProbably 1872-1876

DimensionsH: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.); Rim Diam: 20.6 cm (8 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 13.15 cm (5 3/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1959.25

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied hollow stem and circular foot. Bowl cut with hobnail diamonds above miter cuts, with scallops on rim. Stem cut with eight flats. Underside of foot cut with a thirty-two-pointed star.

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

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. 67.

Rogers, 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. 66.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 106.

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, p. 4, repr. fig. 22.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 433.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195, no. 66.

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 39, fig. 61, p. 93.

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. 534, no. 876, color pl. 876, p. 569.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 66, no. 61.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 58, no. 66, repr. p. 40.

Spillman and Farrar, Complete Cut, pp. 24-25, no. 14, fig. 14.