Paperweight Vase (or Inkwell) and Stopper

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Paperweight Vase (or Inkwell) and Stopper

Manufacturer United States Glass Company (American)

Date1924

DimensionsH (with stopper): 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); H (without stopper): 10.6 cm (4 5/32 in.); Base Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); Rim Diam: 6.3 cm (2 15/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass enclosing a wineglass form of gold ruby glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Monsig. Max Walz

Object number

1971.166

Not on View

DescriptionInkwell: the wineglass, possibly made at the lamp and surrounded by colorless glass, probably by a casting process. All surfaces cut and polished; edges beveled, cut, and polished; and vertical edges cut with a series of notches. Hexagonal stopper: colorless glass. Blown, tooled, and cut.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 161, no. 6, pl. 57A, no. 86

Cloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, p. 138, no. 460, pl. 49, no. 460

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. 568, no. 956.