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Marble

Place of OriginUnited States or Germany

Date1870-1900

Dimensions1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

Mediumpossibly lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.531C

Not on View

DescriptionGreenish. Hot-tooled. Solid. Encloses a spiral of four multicolored canes (blue, opaque white, pink, red, and yellow) surrounded by greenish glass and swirls of four sets of three orange-yellow canes each. Semipolished pontil mark opposite one end of canes.

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. 567, no. 952.