Cruet and Stopper

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Cruet and Stopper

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

DateProbably 1880-1888

DimensionsH (with stopper): 6 11/16 in. (17.0 cm); H (without stopper): 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm); Ri m Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.0 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

MediumCruet: gold ruby glass overlaid with colorless glass; mold-blown and tooled. Stopper: colorless glass; solid, cut and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Lowell Innes

Object number

1986.93

Not on View

DescriptionCruet: body blown and patterned in a dip mold with ten vertical ribs, then blown in an optic mold, and finished by tooling. Lip sheared. Tooled colorless glass handle turned up and in at lower end. Semipolished pontil mark. Neck ground and semipolished to fit stopper.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, OH, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 194, no. 40.

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. 603, no. 965.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, OH, 1968, p. 57, no. 40.