Paperweight

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Object Name: 
Paperweight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, OH, Grand Rapids
Accession Number: 
68.4.69
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.9 cm, Diam (max): 8.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1968
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Dominick Labino
Primary Description: 
Paperweight. Transparent chrome green glass; blown, trapped air bubbles, furnace-worked and cased. Hemispherical shape; cased design of one large bubble encircled by six smaller bubbles; flat ground and polished base; scratch-engraved on body near flat base: "Labino1968".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Labino, Dominick (American, 1910-1987), Source
1968
Category: 
Paperweights
Studio Glass
Color: 
green
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Dominick Labino

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit

Publications (2)

Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2012 (2011-12) illustrated, p. 5;
Toledo Glass National, III (1970) 24 p.; BIB# 20942