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Jug

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1906

Dimensions13 1/8 × 6 in. (33.3 × 15.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Arthur L. Nelson, in memory of Fanny Scott Waters and Jennie Scott Waters Abercrombie

Object number

1970.71

Not on View

DescriptionColorless. Libbey no. 629 jug. Body blown in a paste mold and finished by tooling. Applied handle. Body and base engraved in the rock-crystal style with cosmos flowers, stems, and leaves. Exterior of handle engraved with one flower at lower end and a string of leaves above.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33, 1905, pp. 23, 25 (form).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, pp. 277, 279 (repr. of pages 23, 25 from Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33), 285 (engraved 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. 722, no. 1217.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: Triumphs of the Factory, 1888-1920, exhibition, August 14-September 25, 1988 (no catalog).