paperweight

Object NamePaperweight

Factory Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat

Made FromLead Glass

Date1845-1855

Place MadeFrance, Baccarat

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 5.5 cm, Diam: 7.9 cm

Accession Number86.3.6

Credit LineGift of The Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Baccarat: Paperweights and Related Glass, 1820-1860

Title Unknown (Spink & Sons)

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless, opaque white, blue, red lead glasses; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form; enclosing a domed cushion of white millefiori "star dust" canes, with a quatrefoil arrangement of matching blue canes set into the cushion, with four red and white canes positioned in the lobes of the quatrefoil, and a large red, white and blue cane in the center; polished concave base; inscribed on the base "49" in white paint; two circular paper labels, one inscribed in blue ball- point "L.273./3.77", the other printed in purple "SPINK & SON/ Exhibition/June 1982/LONDON" and inscribed in ink "13", and the remains of another paper label.
Provenance

Source Laura Houghton - 1986-02-19

Source Leo Kaplan (d. 2013) - 1986-02-19

Source Honorable Amory Houghton Jr. (American, 1926-2020) - 1986-02-19

Former Collection Spink & Sons, Ltd.