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Manufacturer Libbey Glass Company (American, 1892-1919)

Date1893

DimensionsH: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); Base L: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Base W: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

MediumColorless non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1978.61

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down and annealed. Black-and-white image of the New York State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, applied to underside of paperweight by a photographic process, then coated with opaque white enamel and fired in a muffle or kiln to form a thin, solid protective coating over the image.

Published ReferencesFauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 228, repr. fig. 3, right.

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. 565, no. 949.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 67, no. 196.