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Finger Bowl

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

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1883-1893

DimensionsRim Diam: 3 17/32 in. (9.0 cm); H: 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm); Max Body W: 4 13/32 in. (11.2 cm)

MediumAmberina glass; blown and ball-optic-molded, then finished by tooling. Concave, polished pontil mark.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Marie W. Greenhalgh in memory of her parents, Alice Libbey Walbridge and William S. Walbridge

Object number

1958.54

Not on View

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, Ohio, 1951, n.p. (8) (lent by Mrs. Greenhalgh).Comparative ReferencesSee also Watkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pl. 67, second from left. Cf. 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. 608, no. 980.