Paperweight
Manufacturer: New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)
Date: 1850-1860
Dimensions:
1 7/8 × 2 11/16 in. (4.7 × 6.8 cm)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1917.537
DescriptionColorless glass.
Solid, tooled. Encloses a flat bouquet of three canes, one each of predominantly red, white, and blue glass, and four green leaves formed by lamp work, surrounded by two circles of millefiori canes, the inner circle alternately blue and white; the outer circle all of the same cane, pink and white with green outer surface, all set above a spiral latticinio mushroom. Fairly deep, concave, polished pontil mark, surrounded by flat polished edge.
Solid, tooled. Encloses a flat bouquet of three canes, one each of predominantly red, white, and blue glass, and four green leaves formed by lamp work, surrounded by two circles of millefiori canes, the inner circle alternately blue and white; the outer circle all of the same cane, pink and white with green outer surface, all set above a spiral latticinio mushroom. Fairly deep, concave, polished pontil mark, surrounded by flat polished edge.
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