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Vase

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1906-1915

DimensionsH: 46.0 cm (18 1/8 in.); Rim Diam: 24.7 cm (9 23/32 in.); Base Diam: 21.0 cm (8 9/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Frazier Reams, Sr.

Object number

1968.13

Not on View

DescriptionBlank blown and finished by tooling. Hexagonal flared rim. Cut with a pattern of unknown name: four stylized stalks of wheat and geometric decoration, including hob stars below the rim. Underside of base cut with a thirty-two-pointed star.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 125.

Pearson, J. Michael, Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass, 1880-1917, 3 vols., vol 1, Geometric Conceptions; vol. 2, Realistic Patterns; vol. 3, Geometric Motifs, Miami Beach, FL, author, 1975, 1977, 1978, vol. 1, p. 40, bottom (repr. of advertisement in Century Illustrated Magazine, November 1910, with ill. of same vase and cut pattern).

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. 702, no. 1158.