Curtain Pin
Curtain Pin
Manufacturer
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Manufacturer
New England Glass Company
(American, 1818-1888)
Place of OriginSandwich or Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Date1850-1855
Dimensions2 × 2 1/8 in. (5.1 × 5.4 cm)
Mediumcolorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.529
Not on View
DescriptionColorless glass.
Solid, tooled to a flat-topped mushroom form with a flared foot. Encloses a central cane containing a silhouette of a white rabbit surrounded by dark amethyst glass within a white cane with ten corrugated edges, surrounded by two circles of canes, the inner circle of twelve millefiori canes of varying patterns, predominantly pink and blue, the outer of thirteen rabbit silhouette canes like the central cane. The flared glass base is enclosed by a close-fitting tin-plated shank from the bottom of which extends a large point-less screw for affixing the curtain pin (today called a tieback) to the wall.
Published ReferencesHollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, pp. 200-201 (pattern).
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. 548, no. 906.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, OH, 1968, p. 66, no. 187 (called doorknob).
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
1870-1900
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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