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Artist Emil Stanger (American)

Artist John Rhulander (American)

Artist Marcus Kuntz (American)

Manufacturer Whitall Tatum Company (American, 1806 - 1938)

Place of Originprobably Millville, New Jersey, United States

Date1900-1910

Dimensions3 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (9 × 8 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.499

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass with a greenish tinge; solid, except for stamen bubble in center, tooled. Encloses a stylized flower of twelve petals (so-called Millville lily or umbrella), with four petals each of alternating green, pale red, and blue frit, formed by a crimp, probably with a central pointed element, forced into the opaque white glass bearing the crushed pattern, to create a deep, tapering central well with bubble above. Applied tooled base. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMinns, Edward W., "Paperweight Making as Done at Millville," American Collector, pt. 1, vol. 1, no. 10, November 1938, pp. 8-9.

Bergstrom, Evangline H., Old Glass Paperweights, Chicago, Lakeside, 1940, pp. 106, 108, nos. 73, 74 (inkwell stopper).

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, p. 260, pl. 17, left (large inkwells with bottoms similar to this piece).

Cloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, p. 134, nos. 84, 349, 350, (color variants).

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. 561, no. 939.