Curtain Pin
Manufacturer: Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)
Manufacturer: New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)
Date: 1850-1855
Dimensions:
2 × 2 1/8 in. (5.1 × 5.4 cm)
Medium: colorless glass
Place of Origin: Sandwich or Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1917.529
DescriptionColorless glass.
Solid, tooled to a flat-topped mushroom form with a flared foot. Encloses a central cane containing a silhouette of a white rabbit surrounded by dark amethyst glass within a white cane with ten corrugated edges, surrounded by two circles of canes, the inner circle of twelve millefiori canes of varying patterns, predominantly pink and blue, the outer of thirteen rabbit silhouette canes like the central cane. The flared glass base is enclosed by a close-fitting tin-plated shank from the bottom of which extends a large point-less screw for affixing the curtain pin (today called a tieback) to the wall.
Solid, tooled to a flat-topped mushroom form with a flared foot. Encloses a central cane containing a silhouette of a white rabbit surrounded by dark amethyst glass within a white cane with ten corrugated edges, surrounded by two circles of canes, the inner circle of twelve millefiori canes of varying patterns, predominantly pink and blue, the outer of thirteen rabbit silhouette canes like the central cane. The flared glass base is enclosed by a close-fitting tin-plated shank from the bottom of which extends a large point-less screw for affixing the curtain pin (today called a tieback) to the wall.
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