Paperweight with Basket and Rose

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Basket and Rose

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Basket and Rose
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
83.3.102
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.4 cm, Diam: 7.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Colorless, opaque white, polychrome lead glasses; paperweight, millefiori, cut. Domed, ribbed, circular form, the ribs formed of trailed rods of white-overlay glass enclosing colorless cores; with a pink and green "rose" cane applied at the top; the spaces between the ribs cut in concave grooves; enclosing a mushroom of closely-spaced millefiori canes, held in a basket of green and white staves; polished pontil mark; paper label, inscribed "63" in ink.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1957-01-15
to
1983-05-20
Lyons, Louis, Former Collection
1957-01-15
Category: 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-03-21 through 2002-09-23
Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21
 
A Collector's Guide to Paperweights (1990) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# 98767
Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #4; BIB# 34353
The Clara S. Peck Collection (1984) illustrated, p. 9, fig. 9; BIB# AI13749
The Clara Peck Collection (1983) illustrated, p. 9 (fig. 9); BIB# AI11335
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 45, 137, #103; BIB# 20097
The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969) fig. 160; BIB# 27188
Additions to 'Antique French Paperweights' (1957-06) fig. C241;