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Place of Originprobably Midwest or Southern New Jersey, United States

Date1890-1910

Dimensions2 9/16 × 3 1/16 in. (6.5 × 7.8 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.506

Not on View

DescriptionSolid, except for a central bubble stamen and five other bubbles around the periphery, tooled. Encloses a layer of white, yellow, pale green, and red chips punched to form a stylized flower, above a layer of small chips of white glass. Flat base rough ground.

Published ReferencesHollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, p. 195, no. 1939.62 (paperweight in the same style made at Ford City, Pa., about 1894); p. 196, no. 1939.91.

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. 558, no. 931.