paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Jasper Ground

Made FromNon-lead (?) glass

Date1850

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 5.7 cm, Diam: 7.8 cm

Accession Number83.3.177

Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

Place Made

probably Bohemia

Physical DescriptionPaperweight with Jasper Ground. Colorless, light green, polychrome non-lead (?) glass; fused murrine, furnace-worked and cased. Paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a granular "jasper carpet" of light green and white particles, with five circular disks of millefiori set in, all with central yellow and white canes, but with red and blue canes, red and white canes, pink and white canes, red, white, and blue canes, and green and white canes encircling them; green, yellow and white star cane at the center; five pink and white canes on the outer edge; small pontil scar on the underside; paper label inscribed "68" in ink.
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