Paperweight

Expand

IIIFView PDF

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

DescriptionColorless lead glass with a greenish tinge; solid, tooled. Encloses a mushroom pattern composed of chips of white, yellow, green, and blue with large irregular chips of aventurine (goldstone) superimposed. Flat base ground and polished.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 422.

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.