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Place of Originpossibly Millville or Glassboro, Southern New Jersey, United States

Date1870-1900

Dimensions2 1/8 × 3 7/16 in. (5.4 × 8.7 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.516

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DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with a greenish cast. Solid, tooled. The dome overhangs the base. Encloses a three-masted full-rigged ship with waves below of opaque white frit picked up from a steel die engraved with the decoration. Large, rough, open pontil mark.

Published ReferencesNo direct published references found. See Francis Edgar Smith, American Glass Paperweights, Wollaston, Mass., author, 1939, pp. 39, 41, 43, pls. 6, 8 (type).

Cloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, p. 134, pl. 47, nos. 138, 370, 492, (type).

Hollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, p. 236, figs. 212, 213, 218 (type).

Hollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, p. 203 (type).

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. 937.