paperweight

Object NameCrown Paperweight

Factory Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis

Made FromLead Glass

Date1846-1855

Place MadeFrance, Saint-Louis

TechniqueBlown, filigree, millefiori

Accession Number55.3.104

Credit LineGift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

On ViewAmerican Gallery

Physical DescriptionCrown Paperweight. Colorless, polychrome lead glasses; Fused murrine; furnace-worked and cased. Blown, filigree, millefiori. Hollow, domed, circular form, enclosing lengths of filigree rods, including red-white-and-green twists and blue-yellow-and- white twists alternating with white twists, arranged in radial pattern, emanating from a central millefiori cane on top, and pulled together at the bottom; polished, concave base.
Provenance

Source Laura Houghton - 1955

Source Honorable Amory Houghton Jr. (American, 1926-2020) - 1955