Decanter and Stopper

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

Date1920s

DimensionsH (with stopper): 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm); H (without stopper): 8 29/32 in. (22.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/32 in. (5.6 cm); Max W: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Object number

1951.68A-B

Not on View

DescriptionLibbey no. 699 quart decanter. Decanter: blank blown in a mold and finished by tooling. No pontil mark. Engraved with pattern no. RC 0612. Hollow stopper: blown in a mold, the lower half of the upper portion patterned with twelve vertical ribs, and finished by tooling. Solid shank ground and polished to fit neck of decanter.

Published ReferencesLibbey Trade Catalog, Toledo Museum of Art Archives 16, n.d. (1920-25), p. 29, left.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 198, no. 145.

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. 737, no. 1255.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 64, no. 145 (dated about 1915).