Cigarette Holder or Cigar Holder

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Cigarette Holder or Cigar Holder

Artist Nicholas Lutz (American, 1835 - 1904)

Place of OriginNew England

DateProbably 1888-1892

DimensionsL: 3 1/8 in. (8.1 cm); Diam (ruffled end): 5/8 in. (1.6 cm); Diam (lip): 7/16 in. (1.0 cm)

MediumOpaque white glass; blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Victor E. Lutz

Object number

1967.16

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, probably from glass tubing, and finished by tooling at the lamp. Lower part of each holder decorated with two rows each of red, yellow, and light blue glass dots.

Published ReferencesSpillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 211.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 3, 1987, p. 255, no. 3414 (which gives the above dates for the production of these holders and indicates that Lutz only decorated articles provided to him for that purpose).

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. 756, no. 1303.