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Cradle

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

Date1886

DimensionsH: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 in.); L: 22.0 cm (8 21/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. G. A. Morison

Object number

1962.33

Not on View

DescriptionBlank blown and finished by tooling. Cut with a variation of the Russian pattern.

Label TextMade as a commemorative gift for a new mother, this cut-glass cradle may be the only one of its kind, specially made at the request of New England Glass Works president Edward Drummond Libbey for a client.Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 113

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, repr. p. 4, fig. 23.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 199, no. 73

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 171, left.

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. 656, no. 1039.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Cut Glass of the Brilliant Period, exhibition, February 5-26, 1967 (no catalog).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 73.