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

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

Place of OriginCambridge or Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1855-1865

Dimensions1 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (4.5 × 6.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.463

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DescriptionColorless glass. Solid, tooled. Encloses a milky white ground embedded with four lengths of canes crossing each other in the middle, with one millefiori cane in the center. The canes are spirally twisted red and opaque white, two each of different rods. The ends of the alternate canes terminate in two millefiori canes and one millefiori cane of assorted colors. Irregular concave pontil mark, polished, surrounded by flat, polished basal ring.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 550, no. 910.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, OH, 1968, p. 66, no. 192.