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Object NamePaperweight with Flowers

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1850-1900

Place Madeprobably Bohemia

Techniquemillefiori elements, cut

SizeOverall H: 4.1 cm, W: 7.1 cm, D: 7 cm

Accession Number85.3.37

Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe, by exchange

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless, polychrome non-lead glasses; millefiori canes, cut. Low, domed shape; enclosing a large flower with blue-rimmed white serrated petals, with yellow-and-red center; the flower encircled by a green-rimmed white zig-zag band; the flower ringed by mixed short lengths of green to look like foliage; a ring of small flowers with pink-rimmed white petals and yellow-and-red centers; backed by a cushion of speckled red, green, blue, yellow, and opaque white; surface facet-cut, with a large flat polygon in the center, hexagonal and pentagonal facets on the side; bottom polished flat, with the remains of a rough pontil scar at the center.
Provenance

Source Michael Kovacek - 1985-06-28

Source Ellen D. Sharpe - 1985-06-28