Crème de Menthe Glass
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Crème de Menthe Glass
Manufacturer
Libbey Glass Company
(American, 1892-1919)
Date1903-1904
DimensionsH: 3 25/32 in. (9.65 cm); Rim Diam: 2 13/32 in. (6.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
MediumColorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois, Inc.
Object number
1969.57
Not on View
DescriptionBowl blown, possibly in a paste mold. Applied stem and foot. All finished by tooling. Bowl copper-wheel-engraved in the rock-crystal style with four volutes alternating with four stylized flowers. Stem engraved with eight double-ended pointed arches, with a band of eight circles each in the knops above and below. Underside of foot engraved with a quatrefoil of scrolls, surrounded by four strands of leaves emanating from center of quatrefoil.
Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 721, no. 1213.
Pierre Delabarre
Glass: before 1630; Mount: c. 1630; Case: c. 1700
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