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Vase

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

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1883-1893

DimensionsH: 37.35 cm (14 11/16 in.); Rim Diam: 15.15 cm (5 31/32 in.); Base Diam: 13.45 cm (5 9/32 in.)

MediumAmberina glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Object number

1969.49

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a dip mold with twelve vertical ribs, then finished by tooling so that ribs appear to be optic-molded. Applied and tooled foot.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Victorian Glass, Northboro, MA, author, 1944, pl. 217, top, second from left

Lee, Ruth Webb, Nineteenth-Century Art Glass, New York, M. Barrows, 1952, pl. 2, top left; pl. 3, top row

McClinton, Katharine Morrison, Collecting American Victorian Antiques, New York, Scribner, 1966, repr. p. 177, bottom left

Barret, Richard Carter, Identification of American Art Glass, Manchester, VT, Forward's Color Reproductions, 1964, pl. 1, row 1

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, OH, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 197, no. 208

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. 604, no. 967.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, OH, 1968, p. 67, no. 208

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