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Goblet

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

DateProbably 1870-1880

DimensionsH: 15.7 cm (6 3/16 in.); Rim Diam: 8.55 cm (3 3/8 in.); Base Diam: 7.7 cm (3 1/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Sarah C. Libbey

Object number

1979.6

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied tooled stem and foot. Bowl cut with strawberry-diamond pattern. Stem cut hexagonal. Base of foot cut with a 24-pointed star.

Published ReferencesSpillman and Farrar, Complete Cut, p. 74 (repr. of page from T. G. Hawkes catalogue, about 1900, illustrating a water bottle in this pattern called No. 6424).

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. 534, no. 875.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8) (lent by Miss Libbey).