Paperweight with Rose

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Rose

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Rose
Place Made: 
France
Accession Number: 
58.3.206
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1870-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Colorless, pink, white, green, turquoise, yellow non-lead glass; paperweight, lampworked. Domed, circular form, enclosing a lampworked multi-petaled pale pink rose with yellow center, on a turquoise stem, with yellow-green and turquoise blue leaves, and a turquoise and pink bud; on an opaque white ground; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Former Collection
1958
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1958-12-29
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, pink, white, green
colorless
pink
white
Technique: 
paperweight, lampworked
paperweights

Exhibitions (2)

Roses in Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-03-21 through 2002-09-23
Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21
 

Publications (6)

The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 45, second row, right; BIB# 35681
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, pp. 164-165, P46; BIB# 35679
Changing Attributions of Antique Paperweights or when "B" stood for "Bristol" (1991) p. 22, fig. 2; BIB# AI28868
Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #9; BIB# 34353
Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 38, top row, right; BIB# 67749
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 81, 163, #292; BIB# 20097