Candlestick

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company (American, 1919 - 1935)

Designer Arthur Douglas Nash (American, 1885-1940)

Date1931-1935

DimensionsH: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 23/32 in. (4.35 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

MediumGlass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens Illinois, Inc.

Object number

1969.331

Not on View

DescriptionSilhouette, K-8, colorless glass bowl and foot, bowl probably blown in a turn mold, applied directly to stem in form of an opalescent monkey seated on a cushion and with cushion on its head, pressed in a mold of two vertical sections; applied flat circular foot.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, p. 15-B, Silhouette, K-8, for the series (this silhouette not shown.

Fauster, Carl U., "Libbey's Famous Glass Menagerie," Hobbies, Feb. 1972, pp. 1-3, fig. 1.

Revi, Albert Christian, "Libbey's Animal Fair," Spinning Wheel, June 1972, p. 8, upper left, and p. 9.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, "Monkey Business," July 2 - August 30, 2009.