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

Place of OriginCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date1855-1870

Dimensions2 × 2 7/8 in. (5.1 × 7.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.469

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass. Solid, tooled. Encloses a scrambled millefiori pattern of canes and fragments and lengths of latticinio cane of assorted colors and forms, including an eagle. Large, deep, concave, polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesHollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, pp. 198-200, color fig. 88 (eagle silhouette).

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. 552, no. 915.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 66, no. 188.