Footed Tumbler

Place of OriginEurope, probably Bohemia

Date1860-1870

DimensionsH: 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.); Rim Diam: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

MediumColorless non-lead glass, stained ruby.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1958.67

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied stem and foot, tooled. Bowl, stem, and foot stained red with copper nitrate, then heated in a muffle. Body engraved with a wooded landscape with a fox on one side, a stag on the other. Stem and foot cut with a series of flats. Underside of foot ground and polished.

Published ReferencesDaniel, Dorothy, "New England Glass in Toledo," Antiques, vol. 61, 1952, repr. p. 329.

"In the Museums," Antiques, vol. 75, 1959, repr. p. 295.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America 1600-1876, New York, Dutton, 1972, repr. p. 431.

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. 792, no. 1346.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Crystal: A Historical Exhibition of Libbey Glass, exh. brochure, Toledo, OH, 1951, n.p. (8) (lent by Mrs. Greenhalgh).