Paperweight with Flowers

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flowers

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flowers
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Clichy-la-Garenne
Accession Number: 
56.3.172
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Colorless, green, white, pink lead glass; paperweight, millefiori, lampworked. Domed, circular form, enclosing a small upright floral bouquet, with five pointed green leaves and flowers formed as translucent pale pink blobs on a light green center, arising from a bed of green and white "moss" canes; ground, flat base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1956-06-18
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Former Collection
1956-06-18
Kramer, Arthur L., Former Collection
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, green, white, pink
colorless
green
white
Technique: 
paperweight, millefiori, lampworked
paperweights
millefiori glass

Publications (2)

The Paperweight Collection of the Honorable Amory Houghton (1978) P. 16, fig. 7; BIB# AI68290
[Paperweights from the Arthur L. Kramer collection, Dallas, TX] (1940) illustrated, p. 45; BIB# 30279