Paperweight with Strawberry

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Object Name:

Department

European

Category

Paperweights

Maker(s)

Cristallerie de Clichy, Factory

Place Made:

France, possibly Clichy-la-Garenne

Date:

about 1850-1880

Color

Colorless, red, white, green

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colorless

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red

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white

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Technique

paperweight, lampwork

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paperweights

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Dimensions:

Overall H: 5.7 cm, Diam: 7.7 cm

Accession Number:

83.3.140

Credit Line:

Bequest of Clara S. Peck

Location:

On Display

Description

Paperweight with Strawberry. Colorless, red, white, green, yellow lead glasses; paperweight, lampwork. Domed, circular form, enclosing a strawberry plant, with five-petaled white flower with yellow-speckled stamens formed using a white "stardust" cane, with straight green sepals; on a green-edged tan stem; two red berries with yellow seeds hang from spindly greenish stems; two emerald-green three- lobed leaves; polished pontil mark.

Provenance

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

Exhibitions (1)
Publications (6)

Exhibitions

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Venue(s)

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

Publications

A Collector's Guide to Paperweights (1990) illustrated, Fig. 6, p. 19 (lower right); BIB# 98767

Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #18; BIB# 34353

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1983 (1984) p. 6;

The Clara S. Peck Collection (1984) illustrated, p. 4, fig. 3;

Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) pp. 95, 164, #299; BIB# 20097

One Hundred of the Most Important Paperweights (1966) pp. 170-171; BIB# 28610

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