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champagne-glass
Object Type
champagne-glass
Museum number
1988,0608.3
Title
Series:
Embassy
Description
Champagne glass from Embassy glass service; clear glass, with vertically ribbed flat-section stem, the bowl and foot free-blown, the stem pressed and polished.
Producer name
Designed by:
Walter Dorwin Teague
Designed by:
Edwin W Fuerst
Factory of:
Libbey Glass Company
Production date
1939
(designed)
1940-1942
(made between)
Production place
Factory in:
Toledo (town - Ohio)
Materials
glass
Technique
blown
pressed
polished
Dimensions
Height:
16.50 centimetres
Width:
9.30 centimetres
(of bowl)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
In set with 1988,0608.1-4 For a full discussion of the 'Embassy' pattern service by Libbey Glass see Decorative Arts 1850-1950 Cat no. 281a (1988.0608.1)
Bibliographic references
Rudoe 1991a / Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection.
(281c)
Rudoe 1994 / Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection
(281c)
Carey 1991 / Collecting the 20th Century
(p.53)
Location
On display
(G48/dc6)
Associated places
Used in:
State Dining Room
Associated events
Designed for:
New York World's Fair 1939
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Historical Design Collection Inc.
Acquisition date
1988
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1988,0608.3
Conservation
Treatment
: 11 Mar 2011