paperweight

Object NameStardust Carpet Ground Paperweight

Designer Paul H. Dunlop (b. 1953)

Factory Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis

Made FromLead Glass

Date1992

Place MadeFrance, Saint-Louis

TechniqueHand-made

SizeOverall H: 7.8 cm, Diam: 8.6 cm

Accession Number92.3.64

Credit LineGift of The Dunlop Collection

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionStardust Carpet Ground Paperweight. Colorless and multi-colored lead glass; hand-made; fused murrine; furnace-worked and cased. Spherical shape of colorless glass enclosing a snowflake-like pattern of stars interspersed with random millefiori canes, one with "1992 SL"; lower part has a basket-like shape and two canes with twisted blue and white rods around the upper and lower edges of "basket". Marked on base "18/50".
Provenance

Source Dunlop Collection

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