Paperweight with Fruit

Paperweight with Fruit

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Object Name:

Paperweight with Fruit

Department

American

Category

Early American

Paperweights

Maker(s)

New England Glass Company, Maker

Place Made:

United States, MA, Cambridge

Date:

about 1852-1874

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Dimensions:

Overall H: 5 cm, Diam (max): 7.2 cm

Accession Number:

73.4.29

Credit Line:

Gift of Miss Marion Pike

Location:

On Display

Description

Colorless lead glass with polychrome lampworked inclusions. Domed, circular shape; enclosing a cluster of fruit: five yellow-green and orange pears, four cherries, and four ribbed green leaves, above a double-spiral, opaque white filigree ground; underside of base with rough "ring" pontil mark.

Provenance

Pike, Marion, Source

Publications (2)

Publications

Glass Bottles, Lamps & Other Objects (1983) pl. 254; BIB# 22375

New England Glass and Glassmaking (1972) p. 329, fig. 273B left; BIB# 27280

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