Punch Bowl & Stand & 23 Cups
Libbey Glass Co., 1903-04
This piece was designed and created for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition in St. Louis. It is renowned as the largest piece of cut glass in exisitence today.
If you just knew Libbey Glass as the makers of inexpensive glassware, the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion will astonish you. Although best known today as the makers of "everyday" glasses, the Libbey Glass Company's roots are in making exquisite cut art glass. The punch bowl pictured above is just one of many examples of their early work in the Glass Pavilion's collection.
Libbey Glass Co., 1903-04
This piece was designed and created for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition in St. Louis. It is renowned as the largest piece of cut glass in exisitence today.
If you just knew Libbey Glass as the makers of inexpensive glassware, the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion will astonish you. Although best known today as the makers of "everyday" glasses, the Libbey Glass Company's roots are in making exquisite cut art glass. The punch bowl pictured above is just one of many examples of their early work in the Glass Pavilion's collection.