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Curtain Pin

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginEast Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date1853-1875

Dimensions4 1/16 × 1 1/16 × 3 9/16 in. (10.4 × 2.7 × 9 cm)

Mediumsilvered glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1970.12

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionExterior of colorless glass: blown, probably in a turn mold, then finished by tooling. After annealing, the interior was coated with a silver solution. Shank fitted with a britannia-ware collar with screw extending from its end for mounting; collar also serves as closure to prevent air from entering interior. Front surface sketchily engraved with vine leaves, tendrils, and grape cluster, probably with stone wheels.

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert Christian, Nineteenth-Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development, rev. ed., New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1967, pp. 192-197 (silvered glass).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 313, fig. 259, left and right (another form of tieback and doorknob of silvered glass made by the New England Glass Works), pp. 324-325.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, OH, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 222, no. 2.

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. 599, no. 957.