Paperweight

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

Place of OriginCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date1852-1874

Dimensions2 1/4 × 3 1/16 × 2 7/8 in. (5.7 × 7.7 × 7.3 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.486

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass with a greenish tinge. Solid, tooled. Encloses a ten-petal deep violet-pink flower ("poinsettia"), millefiori-cane center, five green-veined leaves, and a short green stem, above a double-spiral white latticinio ground. Rough, unground pontil mark.

Published ReferencesHollister, Paul, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, Potter, 1969, color fig. 94.

Hollister, Paul, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, Potter, 1974, pl. 96, left (very similar weight in both Hollister works).

Dodsworth, Roger, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 182.

Hollister, Paul, Paperweights from the Henry Melville Fuller Collection, exh. cat. The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., 1993, p. 48, nos. 140-142, p. 49, nos. 143-144.

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. 563, no. 944.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 77, no. 243.