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Jug

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company (American, 1919 - 1935)

DateProbably 1920-1925

DimensionsH: 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm); Max W (across mouth): 4 in. (10.2 cm); W (with handle): 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Base Diam: 4 27/32 in. (12.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a definite amethyst tint; blank-blown, probably in a paste mold, and finished by tooling, applied handle.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis LeSage

Object number

1968.77A

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 81 3-pint jug. Cut with the New Brilliant pattern. Underside of base cut with a twenty-four-pointed even-rayed star.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 32, 1904, second from last page.

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33, 1905, p. 18, center left.

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 5, 1908, pl. 25.

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 6, 1909, pl. 23.

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever, The Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company, Ames-Kiebler Co., n.d. (1920-25), repr. in Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 300, (no. 81 3-pint jug Brilliant, $13.50).

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. 3, p. 51 (pattern).

Swan, Martha Louise, American Cut and Engraved Glass of the Brilliant Period in Historical Perspective, Lombard, IL: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1986, p. 186, fig. 238 (tank and jug and five tumblers) and p. 185, figs. 236 and 237 (nappies, sugar and cream).

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. 680, no. 1096.