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Place of OriginUnited States

Date1880-1910

Dimensions1 15/16 × 2 11/16 in. (5 × 6.9 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.500

Not on View

DescriptionSolid, except for a large bubble in the center extending to near the base, tooled. Encloses a stylized flower composed of opaque white bearing a variety of colored-glass chips, including blue, red, green, pink, and yellow, crimped to form six ruffled petals. Flat base rough ground.

Published ReferencesBergstrom, Evangeline H., Old Glass Paperweights, Chicago, Lakeside, 1940, nos. 80, 81.

Hollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, p. 197, no. 1965.704.

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. 555, no. 925.