Ink Bottle Paperweight
Ink Bottle Paperweight
Place of OriginBirmingham or Stourbridge, England
Dateabout 1850-1860
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 1 11/16 × 3 5/16 in. (8.9 × 4.3 × 8.4 cm)
Mediumcolorless glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.528
Not on View
DescriptionColorless glass in form of bottle enclosing "concentric millefiori" paperweight design; horizontal rim; conical body; body facet-cut into two rows of diamonds, one row of pentagons, one row of alternating large and small arch shapes with vertical fluting between; lower portions of bottle enclosing concentric circles of millefiori canes of red, white, and greenish-blue.
Probably first half of first century
about 1848
Probably mid-first century
Probably 3rd Century CE
Probably third century
Mid- to second half of first century
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