Collection Highlights
Stained glass window
Date:
ca. 1656
Object Number:
1951.414c
Medium:
Glass
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paperweight
Object Number:
2002.1.79
Date:
1876
Medium:
Glass, silvering
Dimensions:
: 1 x 4 x 2 3/4 in.; 2.54 x 10.16 x 6.985 cm
Description:
The rectangular clear glass paperweight has a silver mirror on the bottom with a tin insert with a drawing of a wedge shaped skyscraper- not the Flatiron- Marked: Fire/ German American/ Insurance Company/ New York. Number two of two identical-see 2002.1.77.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
