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Object NamePaperweight with Lily

Maker Jacob A. Quiring

Maker Jacob Quiring & Sons Novelty

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1945

Place MadeUnited States

Techniquehot-worked, internal decoration of crushed glass

SizeOverall H: 14.3 cm, Diam (max): 10.6 cm

Accession Number94.4.172

Credit LineGift of Allan Quiring and James Quiring

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Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with greenish tint, opaque white, red, yellow, aqua and multi-colored chips; hot-worked with internal decoration of crushed colored glass. Large egg-shaped paperweight or door stop with internal three-tiered decoration: descending from pointed end: five-petaled flower with white petals and body speckled with aqua surrounding central air trap, flower "emerges from four-part broad circular scallop of yellow with white border, five lily-shaped flowers with red interiors and white edging emerge from scalloped "ground" of crushed multi-colored glass chips; overall scattered small air traps; section of one broad side ground and polished flat, punty area on short end ground flat and left unpolished; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Allan Quiring

Source James Quiring