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Place of OriginUnited States, southern New Jersey or the Midwest

Date1890-1910

Dimensions2 1/8 × 2 11/16 in. (5.4 × 6.8 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.508

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DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with a greenish cast. Solid, tooled. Encloses a flying dove, a church, a house, and the inscription, made of white frit picked up from a steel die engraved with the decoration, over a ground of chips of white, yellow, and orange-red glass. Large, rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesNo direct published parallels found. See Hollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, p. 203, no. 1939.73 (same type and similar design).

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. 560, no. 938.