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Sherry Glass

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1890-1920

DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.25 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank-blown and finished by tooling, drawn stem, applied circular foot.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.126

Not on View

DescriptionBowl cut with the Strawberry Diamond and Fan pattern (fans with seven points). Stem hexagonal-cut with notched edges. Underside of foot cut with a twenty-four-pointed star.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 199, no. 75.

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. 75.

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

Comparative ReferencesSee also 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. 660, no. 1049 (not actually published in catalog, but an identical glass was - 1951.125).