Miniature Floral Paperweight

Object Name: 
Miniature Floral Paperweight

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Object Name: 
Miniature Floral Paperweight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
2011.4.31
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.2 cm, Diam: 4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1860-1880
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the assistance of The Karl and Anna Koepke Endowment Fund
Primary Description: 
Colorless, green, yellow, red, white, blue, and pink glass; millefiori cane technique, cased, hot-worked. Miniature glass paperweight containing five green leaves framing three slices of different millefiori canes, each showing central flower encircled by six additional flowers. Floral design cased in colorless glass; concave base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Leighton, John H., Former Collection
Pike, Priscilla Leighton, Former Collection
Pike, Peter, Former Collection
White's Auctions, Former Collection
Cullity, Brian, Source
2011-03-18
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
colorless
green
yellow
red
white
blue
pink
Technique: 
cased
hot-worked
millefiori cane
Material: 
glass