Vase in Ruba Rombic pattern with "French Crystal" finish

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Vase in Ruba Rombic pattern with "French Crystal" finish

Designer Reuben Haley American, 1872-1933

Manufacturer Consolidated Lamp & Glass American

Place of OriginCoraopolis, Pennsylvania

Date1928-1932

DimensionsH: 39.7 cm (15 5/8 in.); W: 22.4 cm (8 13/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass; mold-blown, acid-etched

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1993.60

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published Referencescf. Duncan, Alastair, American Art Deco, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 126, repr. (col.) p. 124

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 181, repr. (col.) p. 182, (det.) p. 171.

Raizman, David, History of Modern Design, Upper River Saddle, N.J., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2010, fig. 10.10, p. 227.

Exhibition HistoryAmerica Craft Museum, New York, N.Y. 1995-96.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, October 12, 2019-January 6,2020.

Label TextNamed for a Persian form of poetry (ruba’i) and the geometric term for an irregular shape with no right angles (“rhombus”), the line of glass known as “Ruba Rombic” was the most extreme expression of the Art Deco style produced by an American glasshouse. Most of Reuben Haley’s other designs borrowed heavily from French glass made by René Lalique (see his works in this gallery), but in Ruba Rombic he created something wholly original. The overlapping angular planes of the geometric design recall the deconstruction of space typical of Cubism.