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Manufacturer B. F. Leach Glass Company (American, 1896-1898)

Date1896-1898

DimensionsMax Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.75 cm); H: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass with a greenish tinge; solid, except for a large bubble in the center, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dan Gustina

Object number

1933.317

Not on View

DescriptionEncloses four light yellowish-green arches above a series of four half domes of the same color, all covered with myriad bubbles to create a silvery effect, above a reddish brown four-lobed square of mottled brown glass. Small, rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesBulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 32, no. 5, September-October 1938, p. 74.

Bergstrom, Evangeline H., Old Glass Paperweights, Chicago, Lakeside, 1940, p. 117, no. 83.

Leonardson, S. E., "Fowlerton Paperweights, B. F. Leach Glass Co.," Hobbies, February 1944, p. 50.

Hollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, pp. 251-252 (Leach).

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. 559, no. 934.