Paperweight with Quatrefoil Garland on Muslin

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Quatrefoil Garland on Muslin

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Quatrefoil Garland on Muslin
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Clichy
Accession Number: 
78.3.112
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.5 cm, Diam (max): 8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Paperweight with Quatrefoil Garland on Muslin. Colorless, polychrome lead glasses; fused murrine; furnace-worked and cased; cut. Paperweight, enclosing a quatrefoil garland of pink and blue millefiori canes, with blue and yellow canes in the loops, and a pink rose at the center; on a "muslin" ground; four large circular facets, separated by deep vertical flutes, and a circular window on the top.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Source
1978-12-30
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1978-12-30
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
polychrome
colorless
multicolored
Technique: 
cutting
paperweights
millefiori glass
Material: 
lead 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