paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Iridescent Finish

Studio Lundberg Studios

Made FromSilver nitrate glass

Date1973

Techniqueoff-hand formed

SizeOverall H: 5.5 cm, Diam: 8 cm

Accession Number74.4.106

Credit LineGift of L. H. Selman Ltd.

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

Place Made

United States, CA, Davenport

Physical DescriptionPaperweight with Iridescent Finish. Opaque silver nitrate glass with silver-blue iridescent finish; off-hand formed; blown, applied decoration, iridized, furnace-worked and cased. Flattened spherical-shape; opaque copper carbonate red and opaque orange hooked threading having three pulls upward and three pulls downward; three circular opaque red tessera with iridescent blue stars in center marvered in atop three downward pulls; ground and polished base; scratch-engraved inscription on base: "Lundberg 12/73".
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