Paperweight with Devil

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Devil

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Devil
Place Made: 
France, Saint-Louis
Accession Number: 
78.3.192
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent dark green, polychrome lead glass; paperweight, a ring of star canes encircles a carpet of blue and white stars and a large heart-shaped panel of red, white and turquoise canes, with a devil silhouette at the center; dark green ground.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Source
1978-12-30
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Former Collection
1978-12-30
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, green, polychrome
colorless
green
Technique: 
paperweight, millefiori
paperweights

Exhibitions (1)

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21

Publications (3)

Saint Louis From 1586 to Today : From Glass to Crystal (1986) pp. 58-59, fig. 75, ill.; BIB# 31777
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 35, 146, #170; BIB# 20097
The Paperweight Collection of the Honorable Amory Houghton (1978) p. 9, fig. 3; BIB# AI68290