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Place of OriginProbably the United States

Date1880-1900

Dimensions1 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (3.8 × 6.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.480

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DescriptionProbably blown in a mold with regularly spaced projections, cooled momentarily, then overlaid with a gather of colorless glass to trap air bubbles, then tooled to draw the bubbles into radial strands meeting at the center of the underside. Flat, polished base

Published ReferencesCloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, pp. 138-139, no. 43.

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. 563, no. 943.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 77, no. 247.