Paperweight
Paperweight
Place of Originprobably 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
Not on View
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.
1890-1910
About 3rd century CE
250-150 BCE
3rd-4th century CE
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
1830-1840
3rd-4th century CE
Probably late fourth to fifth century
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