Paperweight
Paperweight
Manufacturer
New England Glass Company
(American, 1818-1888)
Place of OriginCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Date1850-1860
Dimensions1 7/8 × 2 11/16 in. (4.7 × 6.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.537
Not on View
DescriptionColorless glass.
Solid, tooled. Encloses a flat bouquet of three canes, one each of predominantly red, white, and blue glass, and four green leaves formed by lamp work, surrounded by two circles of millefiori canes, the inner circle alternately blue and white; the outer circle all of the same cane, pink and white with green outer surface, all set above a spiral latticinio mushroom. Fairly deep, concave, polished pontil mark, surrounded by flat polished edge.
Published ReferencesCloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, p. 124, no. 294; pl. 42, no. 395 (but faceted).
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 102.
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. 549, no. 908.
1870-1900
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