Paperweight with Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
78.4.178
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.1 cm, W: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1851-1852
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Paperweight with Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; pressed and acid-etched, taken from a Crystal Palace Medal; hexagonal.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1978-12-30
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Source
1978-12-30
Category: 
Early American
Paperweights
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
acid-etching
pressing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit

Publications (3)

The Fancy Paperweights of the New England Glass Company (2006-10) illustrated, pp. 132-139, esp. p. 133;
The art of the paperweight: The Boston & Sandwich and New England Glass Companies (1997) p. 6, fig. 1.3; BIB# 36939
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 267, #1064; BIB# 30457