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Finger Bowl

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

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1883-1893

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

MediumAmberina glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1958.60

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and ball-optic-molded, then finished by tooling. Concave, polished pontil mark.

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.