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

Place of OriginCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date1852-1874

Dimensions2 1/8 × 2 × 2 1/2 in. (5.4 × 5.2 × 6.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.489

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionColorless glass with a slight greenish tinge. Solid, tooled. Encloses a lamp-work group of apples or pears, cherries, and veined green leaves above an opaque white latticinio network. Large, concave, polished pontil mark with one rough section remaining.

Published ReferencesSmith, Francis Edgar, American Glass Paperweights, Wollaston, Mass., author, 1939, p. 12, pl. 2.

Hollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, p. 207, fig. 201.

Cloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, pp. 118-119, pl. 43, no. 139.

Selman, Lawrence H. and Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors, Santa Cruz, Calif., authors, 1975, p. 6, fig. 193, top left.

Hollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, pl. 107, left, p. 178.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Bottles, Lamps, and Other Objects, New York, Knopf, 1983, no. 254.

Hollister, Paul, Paperweights from the Henry Melville Fuller Collection, exh. cat., The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., 1993, p. 41, no. 105; p. 42, nos. 106-108.

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. 564, no. 945, colorpl. 945, p. 572.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 77, no. 242.