Paperweight
Paperweight
Manufacturerpossibly
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
American, 1826-1888
Manufacturerpossibly
Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company
American, 1882-1883
Place of Originpossibly Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States
Date1880-1885
Dimensions1 3/4 × 2 11/16 in. (4.4 × 6.8 cm)
Mediumcolorless lead glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.504
Not on View
Collections
Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 422.
- Glass
Hollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, p. 14 (aventurine).
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. 923.
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