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Bowl

Place of OriginProbably United States

DateProbably early twentieth century

DimensionsH: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.)

MediumYellowish emerald-green lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.41

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a two-piece part-size mold patterned with eleven rows of fifteen lateral diamonds and one row of half diamonds at the plain rim. Expanded and finished by tooling. Short, irregular, circular sloping foot tooled from an applied gather. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 88, repr. pl. 31, no. 4

Wittmann, Otto, "New Accessions," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer 1960, repr. p. 66

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. 55

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. 781, no. 1321.

Exhibition HistoryBoston Public Library, Early American Glass Club Exhibition, 1937.