Paperweight with Yellow Rose

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Yellow Rose

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Yellow Rose
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Millville
Accession Number: 
83.4.61
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.8 cm, Diam: 8.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1900-1915
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Colorless, yellow, green non-lead glass; paperweight, crimped. Spherical form, enclosing a brilliant yellow thirteen-petaled rose with three pointed green leaves; heavy disk foot; rough- ground pontil mar; paper label inscribed "26." in ink.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1983-05-20
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, yellow, green
colorless
yellow
Technique: 
paperweight, crimp
paperweights

Exhibitions (1)

Roses in Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-03-21 through 2002-09-23