Gila Monster

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Object Name: 
Paperweight
Title: 
Gila Monster
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Pantin
Accession Number: 
83.3.172
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.7 cm, Diam: 10.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1878-1880
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Paperweight, "Gila Monster". Colorless, red, green, yellow, white lead glasses; lampworked; furnace-worked and cased. Domed, circular form, enclosing a lampworked animal (reptile?) with yellow-spotted black skin, finned back, spatulate tail, red eyes; with two plants alongside, both with arching green leaves, one with a white flower, the other a red flower, both with yellow stamens; on a mottled green ground with tan "sand" and granular white underneath; polished pontil mark; paper label, inscribed "97" in ink.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1961-05-12
to
1983-05-20
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, Former Collection
1961-05-12
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, red, green, yellow,
colorless
red
green
Technique: 
paperweight, lampwork
paperweights

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit

Publications (5)

The Clara S. Peck Collection (1984) illustrated, p. 11, fig. 11; BIB# AI13749
The Clara Peck Collection (1983) illustrated, pp. 1, 11 (fig. 11); BIB# AI11335
The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969) fig. 56, 57; BIB# 27188
Collector's Americana. The entire stock of the late David Hollander, Riverdale, N. Y. (1961-05-12) #159; BIB# 10308
Part 3 of the collection of the late Frances Clemson Cross. Paperweights, art, colored and lacy Sandwich glass... (1960-10-11) #825; BIB# 12118