Seven Medallions or inserts

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Seven Medallions or inserts

Artist Henry Clay Luther (American)

Date1865-1880

Mediumcolorless glass and opaque white glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.175B

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DescriptionSix colorless glass beads and one opaque white glass bead. Pressed and some enameled in the same manner as ACGC, p. 502, nos. 834 and 835 with different patterns. Some unmounted, some mounted with backgrounds of white plaster of paris. The example of opaque white glass shows a young woman's head in profile (G).

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 502, no.836.