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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1917-1918

DimensionsH: 21.0 cm (8 1/4 in.); Rim Diam: 18.2 cm (7 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)

MediumAmberina glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor

Object number

1986.179

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 11 or 3017 bowl. Bowl blown and optic-molded with twelve vertical ribs. Rim tooled and goffered. Joined by a short median knopped stem to a blown hollow knop patterned with twelve ribs swirled to the right. Joined by a short baluster stem and two bladed knops and lower stem to a flat, circular foot pattern-molded with twelve slightly swirled ribs, its rim folded under. Smooth, concave, polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Amberina 1884 and 1917, Toledo, Ohio, Antique and Historic Glass Foundation, 1970, no. 11.

Libbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives34, n.d. [1917], p. 8, no. 3017.

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. 610, no. 986.

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