Paperweight with Basket and Rose

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Object Name:

Department

European

Maker(s)

Clichy, Maker

Place Made:

France

Date:

1845-1855

Color

Colorless,op.white, polychrome

AAT

colorless

Physical Attributes Facet (ref)
- Color (ref)
  - color (ref)
    - colorless (ref)

Technique

paperweight, millefiori, cut

AAT

paperweights

Objects Facet (ref)
- Furnishings and Equipment (ref)
  - Furnishings (ref)
    - furnishings (ref)
      - paperweights (ref)

AAT

millefiori glass

Materials Facet (ref)
- Materials (ref)
  - materials (ref)
    - inorganic material (ref)
      - glass (ref)
        millefiori glass (ref)

Dimensions:

Overall H: 5.4 cm, Diam: 7.1 cm

Accession Number:

83.3.102

Credit Line:

Bequest of Clara S. Peck

Location:

Not on Display

Description

Colorless, opaque white, polychrome lead glasses; paperweight, millefiori, cut. Domed, ribbed, circular form, the ribs formed of trailed rods of white-overlay glass enclosing colorless cores; with a pink and green "rose" cane applied at the top; the spaces between the ribs cut in concave grooves; enclosing a mushroom of closely-spaced millefiori canes, held in a basket of green and white staves; polished pontil mark; paper label, inscribed "63" in ink.

Provenance

Peck, Clara S., Source to 1983-05-20

Exhibitions (2)
Publications (7)

Exhibitions

Roses in Glass

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 2002-03-21 through 2002-09-23

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21

Publications

La Cristallerie de Clichy: une prestigieuse manufacture du XIXe siecle (2005) illustrated, p. 363; BIB# 88630

A Collector's Guide to Paperweights (1990) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# 98767

Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #4; BIB# 34353

The Clara S. Peck Collection (1984) illustrated, p. 9, fig. 9;

Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) pp. 45, 137, #103; BIB# 20097

The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969) fig. 160; BIB# 27188

Additions to 'Antique French Paperweights' (1957-06) fig. C241;

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