paperweight

Object NamePaperweight wtih Geometric Pattern

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1850-1870

Techniquemillefiori, paperweight technique

SizeOverall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 8.7 cm

Accession Number85.3.23

Credit LineGift of Arthur Rubloff

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

Bohemia

Physical DescriptionColorless, blue, pink, opaque white non-lead glasses; millefiori, paperweight technique. Low, circular, domed shape, enclosing tiny circular red-and-white and blue-and-white simple canes, along with more complex red-white-and-green millefiori canes of two types, arranged in a geometric pattern, with a quatrefoil at the center, ringed by an eight-pointed star formed of arcs, and a band of eight swags outside; polished small concave pontil mark on the bottom.
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