paperweight

Object NamePaperweight wtih Geometric Pattern

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Date1850-1870

Place MadeBohemia

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

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

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.
Provenance

Source Bardith, Ltd. - 1985-03-22

Source Arthur Rubloff - 1985-03-22