Champagne Glass

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Champagne Glass

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

Designer Arthur Douglas Nash (American, 1885-1940)

Date1918-1925

DimensionsH: 6 7/32 in. (15.8 cm); Rim Diam: 4 21/32 in. (11.85 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/32 in. (7.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass; mold-blown, applied tooled stem

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of the Swisher and Homer D. Roberts Families

Object number

1969.249

Not on View

DescriptionBlank for bowl blown in a paste mold. Joined by a domed wafer to applied tooled foot. Cracked off. Rim ground and polished. Bowl and underside of foot cut with the Bristol pattern of hexagons.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 17, n.d. (1918-25), p. 1 (this pattern, called Bristol).

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. 714, no. 1194.