Paul Stankard has developed traditional paperweight-making techniques to create small-scale environments based on the natural world. His work is distinguished by his attention to botanical detail—his careful reproduction of not just one part of a plant or flower, but the entire plant system, including roots, dead leaves, and resident insects.
Physical DescriptionCloistered Botanical, "Mountain Laurel Bouquet". Colorless, transparent dark green (appearing black), polychrome opaque and translucent colors non-lead glasses (Schott colorless, Kugler and Italian color rods), Hextol adhesive; flameworked, encased, ground, polished, laminated. Short obelisk (with slightly curved top and sides) of solid colorless encasing a suspended elongated flower bouquet consisting of green foliage (with pointed leaves, topmost are longer and spotted) and tendrils surrounding three large white trumpet-shaped blossoms with exterior rim edged with small spheres--interior of green stigma and white with dark tipped anthers, at mid-point is a smaller yellow blossom with green and dark red pistil, lower half of bouquet filled with small blue blossoms with yellow centers; at base of bouquet numerous thin root tendrils of light brown and green hang down and are intertwined with tips fanning out; three long sides of the obelisk are laminated with a layer of dark green, long front side and top are not faced; square base tapers in slightly and is formed of two layers of green sandwiching a layer of colorless with narrow incised circumference; base ground an polished flat with wide circular ground an polished pontil; four small rubber feet at corners; along base edge of back side in script: "Paul J. Stankard E18 '93". Provenance
