Handcooler Paperweight

Object Name: 
Handcooler Paperweight

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Object Name: 
Handcooler Paperweight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Saint-Louis
Accession Number: 
85.3.26
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.3 cm, Diam: 4.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Ellen D. Sharpe, by exchange
Primary Description: 
Colorless polychrome lead glasses; millefiori, paperweight technique. Ovoid shape; colorless glass enclosing closely- packed slices of millefiori canes, mostly in blue, white and green colors; with a multi-ringed cane of pink, white, blue and green on the large end; surface polished.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Kaplan, Leo (d. 2013), Source
1985-03-22
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, polychrome
colorless
Technique: 
millefiori, paperweight technique
millefiori glass

Exhibitions (1)

Dance
Venue(s)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1986-12-17 through 1987-09-06

Publications (1)

Dance (1987) p. 21; BIB# 2400