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Paperweight or Doorstop

Place of Originprobably Eastern United States

Date1890-1900

Dimensions3 11/16 × 4 1/16 in. (9.4 × 10.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.523

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DescriptionColorless glass with a grayish tinge. Solid, except for a large bubble at the center, tooled. Encloses a stylized flower of two tiers of petals springing from a basket of tooled red, white, and brown glass cane and chips, the lower tier of eight pink canes with white chips superimposed, the upper tier of four blue canes alternating with four pink canes, with white chips superimposed. Large rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 557, no. 929.