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ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

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

Place of Originprobably Cambridge or possibly Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1852, possibly later

Dimensions1 11/16 × 2 7/16 in. (4.3 × 6.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.448

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass. Solid, tooled. Encloses a scrambled millefiori pattern with a variety of canes and fragments and lengths of latticinio canes of assorted colors. Very shallow, broad, polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, NY, Bramball House, 1953, pl. 61, top center.

Hollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, pp. 198-200.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 102.

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. 551, no. 914.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, OH, 1968, p. 66, no. 191.