paperweight

Object NamePaperweight

Made FromGlass

Date1950-1960

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 7.6 cm

Accession Number83.3.128

Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

Europe

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent yellow-green, polychrome glass; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing millefiori canes arranged in an eight-spoked design around a ring of red and white millefiori canes encircling a red and white star cane; the canes in the spokes including blue, white and red canes, white and red canes, turquoise and white canes, red, blue, and white canes, and pairs of red and white canes; arranged on a bed of parallel lengths of translucent yellow- green filigree twists; polished pontil mark; paper label inscribed "103" in ink.
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