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Goblet

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Place of Originprobably Toledo, Ohio, United States

Date1906

Dimensions6 5/16 × 3 13/16 × 3 1/8 in. (16.1 × 9.7 × 8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1970.72

Not on View

DescriptionColorless. Libbey no. 698 goblet. Bowl blown, possibly in a paste mold. Applied stem and foot. All finished by tooling. Polished pontil mark. Bowl engraved in the rock-crystal style with cosmos flowers, stems, and leaves. Stem cut in hexagonal panels. Underside of foot engraved with a wreath of leaves.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, OH, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 285 (repr. of page 31 from Toledo Museum of Art Archives 33).

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. 721, no. 1214.

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