Pitcher

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company American, 1818-1888

ManufacturerOr Libbey Glass Company American, 1892-1919

Date1883-1893

DimensionsH: 31.5 cm (12 13/32 in.); Mouth W: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); Max W (with handle): 15.8 cm (6 7/32 in.) ; Base Diam: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.)

MediumAmberina glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy-Lee Jones

Object number

1967.14

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesCatalogue of Blown and Rich Cut Glassware, Boston, New England Glass Company, 1884 [TMA R18.N582], p. 8, no. 84 (shape);

Daniel, Dorothy, Cut and Engraved Glass, 1771-1905, New York, M. Barrows, 1950, p. 66, pl. 21 (shape).

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 12, no. 4, Winter 1969, p. 99, repr. p. 97;

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 114;

Fauster, Carl U., Amberina 1884 and 1917, Toledo, Ohio, Antique and Historic Glass Foundation, 1970, pp. 5, 10, no. 305 (champagne jug).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 364, fig. 345, top row, center (repr. of page from 1886 New England Glass Company catalogue);

Papert, Emma, The Illustrated Guide to American Glass, New York, Hawthorn, 1972, repr. p. 217, right;

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 30, repr. p. 197, no. 203;

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 171, right.

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. 42, fig. 66, p. 93.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 813, pl. X; p. 814.

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. 609, no. 983, colorpl. 983, p. 576.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 67, no. 203;

Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art between World's Fairs, 1876-1893, exh. cat., Detroit Mich., 1983, repr. pp. 264-265, no. 172;

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

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, intro. by Nina A. Asharina, Shedevri Amerikanskogo Stekla [Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art], exh. cat., Moscow, Soviet Press, 1990, repr. p. 68, fig. 61.

Label TextWhen Edward Drummond Libbey assumed control of the New England Glass Works after his father’s death in 1883, he found it overstocked with unsold Amberina glass and on the brink of financial ruin. He sold the entire inventory to Tiffany & Co. in New York, where it succeeded in capturing the public’s attention. Amberina became an important product for the company in the 1880s, but it is not known exactly how long it was made.