Goblet

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

ArtistEngraver Louis F. Vaupel (American, 1824 - 1903)

Place of OriginEast Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); Rim Diam: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.); Base Diam: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1974.52

Not on View

DescriptionCased with gold-ruby glass. Bowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied hollow stem, blown and tooled. Applied foot. Bowl copper-wheel-engraved with hunting scene. Stem cut with six panels. Foot cut with geometric pattern and notches. Polished pontil mark.

Label TextGlass engraver Louis Vaupel (1824–1903) left his native Germany for the United States in 1850, where he soon became “first engraver” at the New England Glass Company. In Germany, Vaupel had been influenced by glass manufacturers in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), who had by 1840 developed cased glass, also known as overlay, where one or more layers of colored glass were fused onto a core of colorless glass. The outer layers were frequently cut away in patterns designed to emphasize the color contrasts and create striking optical effects. When engraved, cased glass provided a depth and range of shading not possible on glass of a single color. The woodland and deer hunting scenes favored by Bohemian engravers were especially dramatic when rendered on cased glass. Vaupel made this goblet on his own time and it stayed in his family until coming to the Museum. He reportedly spent over 600 hours on the intricate engraving over an 18-month period.Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, repr. pl. 47.

Carl U. Fauster, "Louis Vaupel, Master Glass Engraver," Antiques, vol. 99, May 1971, pp. 696-701, repr. color fig. A (Reprint 2, p. 213);

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 332, fig. 277;

Carl U. Fauster, "Vaupel Engraved Masterpieces Acquired by Major Museums," The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 113, August 1975, pp. 2-7, repr. cover;

Newman, Harold, An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass, London, Thames and Hudson, 1977, repr. p. 327;

Spillman, Jan Shadel and Estelle Sinclaire Farrar, The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning, 1868-1940, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1977, pp. 21, 25, no. 13, repr. fig. 12.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, pp. 22-23 (Vaupel), 214-216 (Vaupel wares), repr. color figs. 14-15, 17;

Susan E. Maycock, East Cambridge, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge Historical Commission, 1988, pp. 228-230 (Louis Vaupel, incl. quotations from his manuscript autobiography, Kurze Biographic Meiner Selbst, covering the years 1824-1899, now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University);

Carl U. Fauster, "Vaupel Engraved Glass in American Museums," Hobstar, vol. 12, no. 5, January 1990, pp. 1, 5-7, repr. fig. 1;

Spillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, p. 40, repr. fig. 62, p. 93.

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. 546, no. 904, colorpl. 904, p. 571.

Ducan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, repr. (col.) p. 20.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 138, repr. (col.) p. 139.

Putney, Richard H. and Paula Reich, Glass in Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2007, repr. (col.) p. 23, (det.) p. 22.

Palmer, Arlene, "Molten rubies: mid-nineteenth century taste for red glass," in 54th Washington Antiques Show [catalog], Washington, DC, Thrift Shop, 2009, p. 99, fig. 7 (col.).

Zollweg, Robert, 200 Years of Glass: A History of Libbey Glass, Toledo, OH, University of Toledo Press, 2019, fig. 1-7, repr. col. p. 11.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 59, no. 68, repr. p. 38.

Otto Wittmann, "Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 19, nos. 2-3, 1976, repr. p. 77. Corning Museum of Glass, The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning 1868-1940, 1977, no. 13, p. 21, 25, repr. fig. 12.

Tallinn (USSR), Museum of Applied Arts; Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum; Moscow, Museum of the State Institute of Glass, Masterpieces of American Glass, 1990, p. 40, 41, fig. 62 (col.). [Exhibited in Leningrad and Moscow only].

Sandwich Historical Soceity Glass Museum, Sandwich, Mass. 1996.