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1850-1880
GUSN-11167
An opaque white glass sphere decorated with 8 sections of blue and deep pink swags with an 8 pointed star pattern at the base.
balls (object genres)
glassblowing
glass (material)
Glass
Blown
SPHERE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1690
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