"Puzzle" Vase

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"Puzzle" Vase

Place of OriginEurope, possibly Spain

DateProbably 1810-1850

DimensionsH: 9 7/8 in. (25.0 cm); Rim Diam: 5 in. (12.8 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.42

Not on View

DescriptionBowl, with a constriction between it and a spherical chamber below, blown and finished by tooling. The lower section has four applied solid struts joining it to the lower part of the bowl and four equidistant blown, applied, and tooled spouts. Three of the spouts are sealed; the fourth, larger than the others, opens into the lower chamber. Applied tooled foot. Applied threading around everted rim.

Published ReferencesRogers, 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. 63.

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. 786, no. 1332.