Macedoine Hand Cooler

Object Name: 
Macedoine Hand Cooler

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Object Name: 
Macedoine Hand Cooler
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Saint-Louis
Accession Number: 
95.3.13
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.4 cm, Diam (max): 4.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1845
Primary Description: 
Paperweight with Mushroom. Colorless, and transparent to opaque polychrome glass; fused, applied, pulled, assembled, tooled, cut, molded, ground and polished. Hand cooler with internal decoration of scrambled polychrome canes and cane sections in the shape of an egg; signed and dated by canes "SL" and "1845".

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
New York Historical Society Museum and Library, Former Collection
1995-01-26
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
glass
colorless
Technique: 
fused
pulling
assembling
tooling
cutting
Inscription: 
SL 1845
signature
: 
By canes

Publications (5)

Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century (2001) illustrated, p. 33, #18; BIB# 68390
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 31, #29, top left; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1995 (1996) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI95180
Important Paperweights: The Property of the New-York Historical Society (1995-01-18) lot 168; BIB# 13933
Glass Paperweights of The New York Historical Society (1974) p. 51, pl. 33; BIB# 18371