Candlestick

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

DateProbably 1920

DimensionsH: 10 3/32 in. (25.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.73

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 1080 10-inch candlestick. Socket and stem blown in optic molds with ten vertical ribs and finished by tooling. Joined by a solid knop. Joined by another knop to the tooled foot. Polished pontil mark. Standard engraved with stone wheels with three exotic flowers and geometric motifs, matte finish. Underside of foot engraved with the same three exotic flowers.

Published ReferencesA Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever, The Libbey Glass Manufacturing Company, Ames-Kiebler Co., n.d. (1920-25), repr. in Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 306, top left (no. 1080 10-in. candlestick).

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. 734, no. 1246.