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Marble

Place of OriginUnited States or Germany

Date1870-1900

Dimensions1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.531B

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DescriptionColorless lead glass with a greenish cast. Solid, hot-tooled. Encloses four slightly swirled canes, two of opaque white, blue, and pink glass alternating with two of yellow, red, and orange glass, and four sets of three opaque white canes swirled around the inner canes. Pontil mark at one end of swirls ground and semipolished.

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. 953.