Paperweight with Flower

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flower

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flower
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
85.4.86
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1852-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton, by exchange
Primary Description: 
Colorless, blue, white, pink, red, green lead glasses; paperweight, millefiori, lampwork. Domed, circular form, enclosing a stylized five-petaled flower, composed of multiple overlay canes (red at the center, with three white overlay layers, and an outer pink layer) formed into heart shapes and arranged around a tiny central red-and-white star cane; five pincered green leaves and short green stem; set into a blue and white "jasper" background; polished, concave base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Kaplan, Leo (d. 2013), Source
1985-10-31
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
colorless
blue
white
pink
red
Technique: 
paperweight, millefiori, lampwork
paperweights
millefiori glass