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Paperweight with Rose

Paperweight with Rose

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Rose
Department
European
Place Made: 
France, probably Monto
Date: 
1870-1880
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
AAT
lampworking
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 7.9 cm
Accession Number: 
91.3.92
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, Jr. in memory of The Hon. R. Henry Norweb
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless, opaque white, pink and green, transparent blue lead glasses; lampwork, paperweight. Solid, domed, circular form of colorless glass, encasing a multi-petaled pink lampworked rose flower of cup-shaped form, with five pointed green sepals curving around the petals; a green bud at one side, enclosing pink petals; four pincered, ribbed green pointed leaves and a curving stem at the back and sides of the flower; the flower floating slightly above a transparent bright blue layer and an opaque white backing layer; colorless glass bottom; polished concave pontil mark.
Provenance
Norweb, Mrs. R. Henry Jr., Source to
Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 31, #31, bottom left; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1991 (1992) illustrated, p. 5;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 34 (1992) illustrated, pp. 140-141, #35;
Pantin Paperweight Characteristics Compared (1985-1986) pp. 10-14;
A Pantin Discovery (1981) p. 10, fig. 17;
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 80; 163, #289; BIB# 20097

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