Footed Mug

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

Date1835-1840 (probably engraved 1842)

DimensionsH: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.); W with handle: 13.1 cm (5 5/32 in.); Rim Diam: 9.3 cm (3 21/32 in.); Base Diam: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in).

MediumColorless glass, blown and engraved

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.48

Not on View

DescriptionBody blown and finished by tooling. Applied single ring around the waist. Applied thread around the neck. Superimposed gather around the base below the ring tooled into 12 swirled loops. Joined by a stem with a medial knop to an almost flat, tooled circular foot. Applied handle with medial rib and crimped and turned-up lower end. Rough pontil mark. Body above ring engraved with initials and date, enclosed below and on sides with leaf sprays with a pheasant or phoenix-like bird on either side; four engraved leaf sprays between the four front loops.

Label TextNew England Glass Company, East Cambridge, Massachusetts Footed Mug Colorless glass, blown and engraved, about 1835-40 (probably engraved 1842) Purchased with Funds from the Libbey Foundation, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1959.48Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 160, repr. pl. 55, no. 6.

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. 63.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 103.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 220, repr. p. 193, fig. 3, right

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. 204, no. 202.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 62, no. 15.